The Cognition Project

Simple Ideas: Daniel Kahneman

The Cognition Project

Show Notes

The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

This episode is from an interview with Daniel Kahneman from 2015. Kahneman helped to spread the approach cognitive psychologists had developed to other fields, leading to the creation of behavioral economics. Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in Economics for these contributions in 2002.

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