Dan Ariely
Person on 4 sites
Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics and founding director of the…
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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If people are predictably irrational, maybe their decisions need help and sometimes their options need limiting (opens korrents.com)
“If people are predictably irrational, then maybe we also need to help improve their decisions. Maybe, sometimes, we need to limit their options.”
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Paternalism feels more acceptable for big, hard-to-reverse decisions that resist learning and carry deep information gaps (opens korrents.com)
“Put these four together — a big decision, hard to reverse, resistant to learning, with deep information asymmetry — and under those conditions I feel much more comfortable saying: let’s not make everyone figure this…”
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Small, reversible, learnable decisions between equally informed sides should be left to people, with no paternalism (opens korrents.com)
“Small decision? Reversible? Easy to learn from? Both sides equally informed? Then leave people alone — that is exactly the territory where freedom to make our own mistakes is how we learn, and where paternalism has no…”
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If people are predictably irrational, maybe their decisions need help and sometimes their options need limiting (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Invisible Gorilla (opens rcmnd.app)
“These are the guys who did one of the most important pieces of research in social science, which is to show how little we actually see in the world around us.”
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Influence (opens rcmnd.app)
“I loved how he even managed to apply his principles to the Watergate scandal.”
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Nudge (opens rcmnd.app)
“Nudge is also a very important book. One of the reasons Nudge is so important is because it's taking these ideas and applying them to the policy domain.”
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The Invisible Gorilla (opens rcmnd.app)