Dan Ariely - Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group.
He is considered to be one of the leading behavioral economists. Currently, Ariely is serving as a Visiting Professor at the Duke University, Fuqua School of Business where he is teaching a course based upon his findings in Predictably Irrational.
Ariely was an undergraduate at Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day.
Ariely is the author of the book,Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, which was published on February 21, 2008 by HarperCollins.
Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, presents examples of cognitive illusions that help illustrate why humans make predictably irrational decisions.
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The option I feel manipulated to choose, is for adaptability rather than set up the frustration of expecting anything to remain stable...rationality is the human curse to be critical, so following a "natural" course is more supportive if only in attitude.
Exceptions came before rules or we couldn't all be so exceptional.
I want to see a full lecture instead of the 20 minute TED talk that I saw on ted.com. Bummer...
There is another talk from 2008 and it's clear that this guy has a lot to say worth hearing.