Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and is Distinguished Research Scholar with Oxford University's BT Centre for Major Programme Management.  He was educated at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and obtained his PhD in Berkeley.  He taught at The Hebrew University, at the University of British Columbia and at Berkeley, and joined the Princeton faculty in 1994, retiring in 2007.  Over a wide-ranging research career he has been involved in many fields of psychology, ranging from vision and attention to the study of juror behavior and the measurement of well-being.  He is best known for his contributions, with his late colleague Amos Tversky, to the psychology of judgment and decision making, which inspired the development of behavioral economics in general, and of behavioral finance in particular. This work earned Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and many other honors, including the 2006 Thomas Schelling Award given by the Kennedy School at Harvard “to an individual whose remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy”, and the Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association in 2007.  He was instrumental in establishing the teaching of Psychology as a core discipline in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton.  He has been engaged in the study of well-being for two decades and is currently a consultant to the Gallup Organization in its well-being research.

LINKS TO RECENT LECTURES

Video Links
"Perspectives: Looking Back and Looking Forward" - Mind, Brain and Behavior 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series, Harvard University.  (click here for videos of the introductions, responses from Harvard faculty, and Q & As):

"Judgment and Intuition" (58 min.) - April 15, 2008
"Decision Making and Rationality" (65 min.) - April 16, 2008
"Evolving Notions of Well-Being" (54 min.) - April 17, 2008

"Explorations of the Mind" - Hitchcock Lectures, University of California, Berkeley:

"Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws" (57 min.) - February 5, 2007.
"Well-Being: Living, and Thinking About It" (60 min.) - February 6, 2007.

"Your Mind: A User’s Guide" (63 min.) – Freshman Assembly for the Class of 2008, September 5, 2004.
"Psychology and Behavioral Economics" (66 min.) - Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture, Northwestern University, May 19, 2004.
"Maps of Bounded Rationality" (38 min.) - Nobel Prize Lecture by Daniel Kahneman, December 8, 2002.
"Intuition and Rationality - A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman" (53 min.) - Interview conducted by Harry Kreisler for the Conversations with History series of the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Awards and Honors

John McGovern Award Lecture, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008

Distinguished Lifetime Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 2007

Frank P. Ramsey Medal of the Decision Analysis Society, (joint with Amos Tversky), 2006

Thomas Schelling Prize for intellectual contribution to public policy, Kennedy School for Public Policy, Harvard University, 2006

Kampe de Feriet Award, Society for Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, 2006

Decision Analysis Publication Award (for best paper published in 2003), Decision Analysis Society, 2005

Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology (joint with Amos Tversky), 2002

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002

Career Achievement Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2002

Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, (joint with Amos Tversky), 1995

Hilgard Award for Lifetime Contribution to General Psychology, 1995

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society of Consumer Psychology, 1992

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, (joint with Amos
Tversky), 1982

Honorary Degrees: University of Rome La Sapienza (2007), University of Alberta (2006), Universite de Paris I and Universite de Paris IV (2006), University of Milan (2005), The University of British Columbia (2004), Harvard University (2004), The University of East Anglia (2004), University of Wurzburg (2004), Ben-Gurion University (2003), The New School  (2003), University of Trento (2002), University of Pennsylvania (2001).

Elected Memberships

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Psychological Association (Fellow)
American Psychological Society (William James Fellow)
British Academy (Corresponding member)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Honorary professor, Institute of Psychology)
Econometric Society
National Academy of Sciences
Society of Experimental Psychologists