Daniel Kahneman left his mark on academia (and the real world) in countless ways. A group of his friends and colleagues recently gathered in Chicago to reflect on this legacy — and we were there, with microphones.

SOURCES:
- Maya Bar-Hillel, professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Shane Frederick, professor of marketing at the Yale School of Management.
- Thomas Gilovich, professor of psychology at Cornell University.
- Matt Killingsworth, senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Barbara Mellers, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Eldar Shafir, director of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy at Princeton University.
- Richard Thaler, professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago.

RESOURCES:
- "Experienced Well-Being Rises With Income, Even Above $75,000 Per Year," by Matthew A. Killingsworth (PNAS, 2021).
- "The False Allure of Fast Lures," by Yigal Attali and Maya Bar-Hillel (Judgment and Decision Making, 2020).
- "Learning Psychology From Riddles: The Case of Stumpers," by Maya Bar-Hillel and Tom Noah (Judgment and Decision Making, 2018).
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (2011).
- "High Income Improves Evaluation of Life but Not Emotional Well-Being," by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton (PNAS, 2010).
- "Varieties of Regret: A Debate and Partial Resolution," by Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Husted Medvec, and Daniel Kahneman (Psychological Review, 1998).
- "Some Counterfactual Determinants of Satisfaction and Regret," by Thomas Gilovich and Victoria Husted Medvec (What Might Have Been: The Social Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking, 1995).

EXTRAS:
- "Remembering Daniel Kahneman," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "Academic Fraud," series by Freakonomics Radio (2021).
- "Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It," by Freakonomics Radio (2018).
- "The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution," by Freakonomics Radio (2017).

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