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== Partnership with Amos Tversky == Kahneman and [[Amos Tversky]]'s collaboration helped launch the field of behavioral economics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shafir |first=Eldar |date=2024-05-03 |title=Daniel Kahneman obituary: psychologist who revolutionized the way we think about thinking |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=629 |issue=8012 |pages=526 |doi=10.1038/d41586-024-01344-6|doi-access=free |bibcode=2024Natur.629..526S }}</ref> Kahneman and Tversky first crossed paths in the Psychology department at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in 1968.<ref name=":10">{{Cite magazine |last1=Sunstein |first1=Cass R. |last2=Thaler |first2=Richard |date=2016-12-07 |title=The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-friends-who-changed-how-we-think-about-how-we-think |access-date=2024-05-13 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> In the period between 1971 and 1979 they published work on judgment and decision-making that led to Kahneman winning the Nobel Prize.<ref name=":10" /> During this period they were described as “inseparable” and as “soul mates”.<ref name="MLTUP2016" /> After leaving Israel in 1978 and accepting positions at different universities, the intensity and exclusivity of their earlier period of joint collaboration was reduced.<ref name=":1" /> According to Kahneman the collaboration "tapered off" in the early 1980s, although they tried to revive it,<ref name=":11" /> but the period when Kahneman published almost exclusively with Tversky ended in 1983, when he published two papers with [[Anne Treisman]], his wife since 1978.<ref name=":5" /> Factors contributing to this estrangement included Tversky receiving most of the external credit for the output of the partnership, and a reduction in the generosity with which Tversky and Kahneman interacted with each other,<ref>Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035)</ref> leading Kahneman to say, “I eventually divorced him”. However, they would continue to publish together until the end of Tversky's life, and worked together on the introduction to an edited collection of papers related to their work during the last six month's of Tversky's life.<ref name=":10" />
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