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Cognitive Psychologist

Amos Tversky was a renowned cognitive psychologist, born on March 16, 1937, and died on June 2, 1996. He is best known for his research in judgment and decision-making theory, heuristics and biases, and cognitive psychology.

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“[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”

Literature Metaphor Semantics

Author:Amos Tversky

“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”

Michael Lewis The Undoing Project

Author:Amos Tversky

“He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”

Michael Lewis The Undoing Project

Author:Amos Tversky

“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”

Michael Lewis The Undoing Project

Author:Amos Tversky

“My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.”

Natural Study Stupidity Artificial Intelligence Artificial Colleagues

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“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”

People Thinking Knows World Might Running Have Faith Frightening

Author:Amos Tversky

“Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.”

Problem Wisdom Fall Simple Mistake Psychology Errors Simplicity Versions Experts Making Mistakes Sophisticated We All Make Mistakes Layman

Author:Amos Tversky

“Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.”

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Book:Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings

Source: Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings

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Born: March 16, 1937
Died: June 2, 1996
Known for: Cognitive Psychologist
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