Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — 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
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to… — 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
What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — 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
