Dan ariely
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up...
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what...
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective...
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OK, so I want to talk today a little about human motivation. What gets us to care and act, and be active. And the starting point, especially being in Chicago, close to the University of Chicago, in...
I'll tell you a little a bit about irrational behavior -- (Laughter) I want to talk about one particular problem which is self control. There were two sisters, in Northern Carolina, the...
Dan Ariely - The meaning of work I want to talk a little bit today about labour and work. When we think about how people work the naïve intuition we have is that people are like rats in a maze; that...
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