PSYCHOLOGIST

Amos Tversky

1937 - 1996

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Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Tversky has received more than 1,159,141 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Amos Tversky is the 130th most popular psychologist (down from 129th in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from Israel (down from 159th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Amos Tversky ranks 130 out of 235. Before him are Otto F. Kernberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Serge Moscovici, Ovide Decroly, Frans de Waal, and Johannes Heinrich Schultz. After him are George Kelly, Steven Pinker, Helene Deutsch, Kurt Goldstein, Havelock Ellis, and J. P. Guilford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Amos Tversky ranks 134. Before him are Jovan Divjak, Archie Shepp, Viacheslav Chornovil, Guy Marchand, Bella Akhmadulina, and Alberto Spencer. After him are Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, Ned Beatty, Monkey Punch, Valentin Bondarenko, and Dan Shomron. Among people deceased in 1996, Amos Tversky ranks 88. Before him are Karl Frenzel, Christopher Robin Milne, Saul Bass, Dondinho, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. After him are Ben Johnson, Lew Ayres, David Packard, Lo Wei, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, and Jo Van Fleet.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Amos Tversky ranks 188 out of 466. Before him are Zahir al-Umar (1689), Yigal Amir (1970), Sarah Aaronsohn (1890), Ivry Gitlis (1922), Chaim Topol (1935), and Eliahu Inbal (1936). After him are Peter I, Count of Alençon (1251), Dan Shomron (1937), Daliah Lavi (1942), Ilan Pappé (1954), Dani Karavan (1930), and Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Israel

Among psychologists born in Israel, Amos Tversky ranks 2. Before him are Daniel Kahneman (1934).

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