You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. —Viktor E. Frankl” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“participants to choose the sheet that tempted them to cheat. As a result of their depletion, they suffered a double whammy: they… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“THE FINAL LESSON is this: both in canoes and in life, it behooves us to give ourselves time to cool off before… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
For all of us, it's very hard to think about money, and because of that, we need help. In the same way… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“RELATIVITY HELPS US make decisions in life. But it can also make us downright miserable. Why? Because jealousy and envy spring from… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“[..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Contrafreeloading,” a term coined by the animal psychologist Glen Jensen, refers to the finding that many animals prefer to earn food rather than simply… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“This result suggests that cheating is not driven by concerns about standing out. Rather, it shows that our sense of our own morality is… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard economics, all… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Upton Sinclair once noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”)” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you get people to feel that they are putting something, that they are creating it and so on, their love for the project… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
