Editing Daniel Kahneman (section)

== Personal life ==
Kahneman was first married to Irah Kahn, with whom he had two children, when they were students.<ref name=":12" /> Kahneman's daughter, Lenore Shoham, who works in technology, collaborated with her father on his Nobel lecture.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview|title = Daniel Kahneman: 'What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence'|publisher = TheGuardian.com|date = July 18, 2015|access-date = March 24, 2019|archive-date = April 14, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210414020453/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kahneman |first=Daniel |date=December 8, 2002 |title=Maps of Bounded Rationality: A Perspective on Intuitive Judgement and Choice |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/kahnemann-lecture.pdf |publisher=nobelprize.org/ |access-date=November 20, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216164826/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/kahnemann-lecture.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> His son, Michael Kahneman, has [[schizophrenia]]; Kahneman was quoted as saying that Michael "would have been a very brilliant economist."<ref name="guardian" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hershey |first1=Robert D. |title=Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=New York Times |date=27 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329181758/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html |archive-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> They were later divorced.<ref name=":12"/>

From 1978 until her death in 2018 he was married to the cognitive psychologist [[Anne Treisman]]. They lived part-time in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref>{{Cite episode | title = How do we really make decisions? | url = https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26258662 | access-date = February 19, 2019 | series = Horizon | series-link = List_of_Horizon_episodes#Series_50:_2013–2014 | network = BBC | station = BBC Two | date = February 24, 2014 | series-no = 2013-2014 | number = 9 | time = 00:20:13 | archive-date = April 17, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210417094657/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26258662 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shariatmadari |first=David |title=A life in ... Interview Daniel Kahneman: 'What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence' |work=The Guardian |date=July 15, 2015 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview |access-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414020453/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview |url-status=live }}</ref> From 2020, he lived in New York City with [[Barbara Tversky]], the widow of his long-time collaborator [[Amos Tversky]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Levitt |first1=Steven D. |title=Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It (26:20) |url=https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pima-daniel-kahneman/ |publisher=People I (Mostly) Admire |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515121902/https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pima-daniel-kahneman/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Kahneman's paternal uncle was [[Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman|Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman]], the head of the [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]].<ref name=":0" />

In 2015, Kahneman said he had always been "far on the left of the spectrum in Israeli politics" and that he had "hated the notion of occupation since the very beginning".<ref name=":9" /> He described himself as a very hard worker, "a worrier" and "not a jolly person", who is "quite capable of great enjoyment, and I've had a great life".<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Shariatmadari |first=David |date=July 18, 2015 |title=Daniel Kahneman 'What Would I Eliminate if I Had a Magic Wand? Overconfidence': Interview |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414041807/https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/18/daniel-kahneman-books-interview |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |access-date=November 11, 2020 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Richard Thaler called his close friend an "avid pessimist." Thaler, a self-described optimist stated that he failed to convince Kahneman to spend less time worrying as Kahneman "claimed this was rational because he would not be disappointed as much with the outcomes of life."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horsley |first=Scott |author-link=Scott Horsley |date=March 27, 2024 |title=Best-selling Psychologist of 'thinking, Fast and Slow,' Dies at 90 |url=https://www.npr.org/people/2788801/scott-horsley |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328004700/https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241206604/thinking-fast-slow-psychology-behavioral-economics-daniel-kahneman-obit-nobel |archive-date=March 28, 2024 |access-date=March 16, 2025 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref>

Kahneman died by [[assisted suicide]] on March 27, 2024, three weeks after his 90th birthday, in [[Switzerland]], though the manner and location of his death was only revealed in March 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zweig |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Zweig |date=March 14, 2025 |title=The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250322175333/https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124 |archive-date=March 22, 2025 |access-date=March 15, 2025 |website=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref><!-- He wrote in an email:<blockquote>I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous, and I am acting on that belief. I am still active, enjoying many things in life (except the daily news) and will die a happy man. But my kidneys are on their last legs, the frequency of mental lapses is increasing, and I am ninety years old. It is time to go.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jerusalem Post Staff |date=March 15, 2025 |title=Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American Nobel Prize Winner, Died Last Year By Assisted Suicide |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-846140 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250315211730/https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-846140 |archive-date=March 15, 2025 |access-date=March 19, 2025 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref> </blockquote> See talk page -->
Given his personal experience with [[dementia]], from which his wife Anne Treisman had suffered, Kahneman received assistance from the Swiss organization [[Pegasos Swiss Association|Pegasos]], and died in the municipality of [[Nunningen]], Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Nunningen SO: Nobelpreisträger kam für Sterbehilfe in die Schweiz |last=Boscovic |first=Antun |date=2025-03-25 |url=https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/nunningen-so-nobelpreistrager-kam-fur-sterbehilfe-in-die-schweiz-66943858 |trans-title=Nunningen SO: Nobel laureate came to Switzerland for euthanasia |language=de |quote=Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman was a world-renowned psychologist. At the age of 90, he came to Switzerland to die voluntarily – out of fear of dementia.}}</ref> 

Former colleague and Princeton faculty member [[Eldar Shafir]] said that Kahneman "was a giant in the field" and that "many areas in the social sciences simply have not been the same since he arrived on the scene. He will be greatly missed".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saxon |first=Jamie |date=March 28, 2024 |title=Daniel Kahneman, pioneering behavioral psychologist, Nobel laureate and 'giant in the field,' dies at 90 |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/28/daniel-kahneman-pioneering-behavioral-psychologist-nobel-laureate-and-giant-field |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=[[Princeton University]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Guardian staff and Agencies |date=March 28, 2024 |title=Daniel Kahneman, Renowned Psychologist and Nobel Prize Winner, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/28/daniel-kahneman-death-age-90-psychologist-nobel-prize-winner-bio |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328152609/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/28/daniel-kahneman-death-age-90-psychologist-nobel-prize-winner-bio |archive-date=March 28, 2024 |access-date=March 28, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Behavioural economist [[Richard Thaler]] said Kahneman's work was "one of the most important accomplishments of 20th century science," and added, "It's hard to think of any psychologist whose work has influenced so many different fields".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/world/nobel-prize-winning-psychologist-daniel-kahneman-dies-aged-90-k0rbpx1r|title=Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies aged 90|first=Eliana|last=Jordan|website=www.thejc.com|access-date=March 29, 2024|archive-date=March 28, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328023628/https://www.thejc.com/news/world/nobel-prize-winning-psychologist-daniel-kahneman-dies-aged-90-k0rbpx1r|url-status=live}}</ref> Kahneman and Tversky were “the founders of our field”, said [[Ulrike Malmendier]], a behavioral economist and member of the German official council of economic experts.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sandbu |first1=Martin |date=March 29, 2024 |title=Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, 1934-2024 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/bcd76311-0bdf-4e53-9af7-2d720a35eaa1 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240402165922/https://www.ft.com/content/bcd76311-0bdf-4e53-9af7-2d720a35eaa1 |archive-date=April 2,  2024 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=[[The Financial Times]]}}</ref>