Warrior psychologists

Michael Lewis’ “The Undoing Project” tells the story of the friendship and professional relationship of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Kahnamen went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics for the work he wrote about in “Thinking Fast and Slow”

What is surprising about their work is the parts done amidst war in Isreal, as both were IDF soldiers. One day, Tversky is teaching at University, the next, he is a paratrooper assaulting the Golan.

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