Preference Belief and Similarity

Amos Tversky (19371996) a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology devoted his professional life to the study of similarity judgment and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics law medicine political science philosophy and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky''s articles selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky''s life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity Judgment and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice Choice under Risk and Uncertainty and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.