Barbara Tversky
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
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| birth_date = Barbara Gans
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| fields = Cognitive psychology
| workplaces = Hebrew University
Stanford University
Columbia University
| alma_mater = University of Michigan
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| awards = Fellow, American Psychological Society {{small|1995}}
Fellow, Cognitive Science Society {{small|2002}}
Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists {{small|2004}}
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences {{small|2013}}
Kampé de Fériet Award {{small|2020}}{{Cite journal |date=2020-06-29 |title=Barbara Tversky Receives Kampé de Fériet Award |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/barbara-tversky-receives-kampe-de-feriet-award |journal=APS Observer |language=en-US |volume=33}}
| spouse = {{marriage |Amos Tversky|1963|1996|reason=his death}}
| partner = Daniel Kahneman (2020–2024; his death)
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Barbara Tversky ({{nee}} Gans) is an American psychologist. She is a professor emerita of psychology at Stanford University and a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.{{cite web|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/barbara-tversky |title=Barbara Tversky, Stanford University Faculty Profile |accessdate=2019-09-12 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=bt2158 |title=Barbara Tversky, Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty Profile |accessdate=2009-03-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527172546/http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=bt2158 |archivedate=2009-05-27 }} She was also President of the Association for Psychological Science from 2018-2019.{{Cite web |title=APS Past Presidents |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/about/past-presidents |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Association for Psychological Science - APS |language=en}} Tversky specializes in cognitive psychology.
Education
Tversky received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1963 and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1969.{{cite web|url=https://fabbs.org/our_scientists/barbara-tversky-phd/|title=FABBS :: In Honor Of... Barbara Tversky|publisher=|accessdate=21 September 2016}}
Academic career
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=Areas of work=
She is an authority in the areas of visual-spatial reasoning and collaborative cognition. Tversky’s research interests include language and communication, comprehension of events and narratives, and the mapping and modeling of cognitive processes. She is the author of Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. Basic Books, 2019 and contributes to ongoing projects with Steve Feiner’s AR lab.{{Cite web |title=Barbara Tversky |url=https://datascience.columbia.edu/people/barbara-tversky/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=The Data Science Institute at Columbia University |language=en-US}}
=Academic roles=
She has served on the faculty of Stanford University since 1977 and of Teachers College, Columbia University, since 2005. In addition, Tversky has served on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals, including Psychological Research (1976–1984), the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (1976–1982), the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (1982–1988), Memory and Cognition (1989–2001), and Cognitive Psychology (1995–2002).
Recognition
Tversky was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, named a Fellow of the American Psychological Society in 1995, the Cognitive Science Society in 2002, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2004. In 1999, she received the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2020 she received the Kampé de Fériet Award.
Personal life
Tversky was married to fellow psychologist Amos Tversky (1937–1996) from 1963 until his death in 1996. They had 3 children together.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960605tversky.html|title=Amos Tversky, leading decision researcher, dies at 59|access-date=2021-10-14|archive-date=2021-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303034115/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960605tversky.html|url-status=dead}} The Tverskys were close friends of Daniel Kahneman, Amos's longtime collaborator.{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Robert D. Hershey |date=2024-03-27 |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=2024-03-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} After Kahneman was widowed, Barbara lived with Kahneman from at least 2020 until his death in 2024.{{Cite web|url=https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pima-daniel-kahneman/|title=Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to do About It (People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 27)}}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Daniel Kahneman |url=https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/daniel-kahneman |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=Interviews with Max Raskin |language=en-US}}
Tversky describes herself as "culturally Jewish", speaks Hebrew, and lived in Jerusalem.{{Cite web|title=Interview with Barbara Tversky|url=https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/barbara-tversky|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-27|website=Interviews with Max Raskin|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727141747/https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/barbara-tversky |archive-date=2021-07-27 }} She is a fan of opera.
References
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External links
- [https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/publications/tversky-barbara "Barbara Tverksy: An Oral History"] – Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2018.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tKcLo6zU2s Interview]
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