Dan Ariely – Finding Cheating’s “Comfort Level”
June 27, 2010Complete video at: fora.tv MIT Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely identifies a psychological “comfort level” for cheating. —– Dan Airely talks about “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.” Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? We think we’re making smart, rational choices. But are we? In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Predictably Irrational will change the way we interact with the world – one small decision at a time – Cody’s Books Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT’s Media Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, and Science.
Go to Duke – he is teaching there now.
awesome book gets you thinking. I want to learn more and go to MIT.. awesome.
Aaah, but did the ppl in the 2nd group tell their answers out loud one by one or without being influenced by all the previous answers. Because everybody in the experiment could have been influenced by the first few answers, like in the Asch experiment.
The President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo must watch this.
Always interesting and enlightening information from Dan; what he says seems intuitively correct, in hindsight.
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This is such a good book–Dan’s bubbling intelligence roams from one subject to another connecting them all with the thread of our weird-when-you-examine-it behavior
So, we should make CEOs recite an honor code each day as soon as they get to work.