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Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely, Professor of Economics at Duke University, has an article in the UK publication “The Independant,” in which he details some of the scenarios his team studied that show how people can...
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Free To Not Choose
In February, John Tierney wrote a great column in February for the New York Times about Dan Ariely’s new book, Predictably Irrational. We already posted about Ariely’s book last week (see here). In...
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Denial
Last November, Benedict Carey of the New York Times penned an intriguing piece on the psychology of denial. As discussed by Carey, recent research suggests that denial helps form and cultivate close...
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The Market’s Personality: Dispositionalizing Situational Characters
Joel Garreau and Shankar Vedantam have a nice article, “Dealing with Scary Mr. Market,” in Tuesday’s Washington Post about the human tendency to see human tendencies in non-humans. The inclination to...
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Dan Ariely, a Situationist
In the following TED Talk video, Dan Ariely, Professor of Economics at Duke University, behavioral economist, and the author of Predictably Irrational, offers some now-standard but still interesting...
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Dan Ariely on the Situation of Expectation
The good folks at Big Think interviewed behavioral economist Dan Ariely and asked him about the the nature of objective reality. Among other things, Ariely had this to say: It turns out that if a...
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The Situation of Cheating
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, in the following video, describes one of his fascinating studies on the situation of cheating. * * * * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Interior...
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The Situation of the Inequality Getting Inequalitier
From PBSNewsHour: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20...
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