Tversky, Amos

Shafir, Eldar, 1. Simonson, and Amos Tversky. 1993. "Reason-Based Choice." Cognition 49 11-36. 

Fredrik Barth Amartya Sen Arthur Stinchcombe Amos Tversky Bernard Williams... 

Amos Tversky is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University... 

The other explanation rests on an ingenious experiment carried out by Amos Tversky and George Quattrone. They found that when asked about voting behaviour in various hypothetical cases, the subjects... 

In the mid-1980s Amos Tversky suggested (personal communication) that past experience has a dual effect on present welfare. On the one hand, there is an endowment effect A memory of a good experience is a good memory, the memory of a bad one a bad memory. Hence a good past tends to improve the present, a bad past to make it worse. On the other hand, there is a contrast effect A good experience in... 

In a study of the net effect, Amos Tversky and Dale Griffin assume that the contrast effect, unlike the endowment effect, requires... 

Kahneman, Daniel and Amos Tversky. 1979. Prospect Theory An Analysis of Decisions Under Risk. Econometrica. March, 47(2) 263-91. 

There is one further bias in information processing that is perhaps worth commenting on in the context of safety and concerns our reactions to taking risks. The phenomenon to be described is one of a number of biases in information processing that occur when we are making choices. Originally described by two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1984), the work has had considerable impact on economic models of choice. 

Johnson, Eric J., and Amos Tversky. (1983). "Affect, generalization, and the perception of risk." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 45(1), pp. 20-31. 

Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky, eds.. Judgment under Uncertainty Heuristics and Biases (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1982). 

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