Behavioral economics Quote by Dan Ariely

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

“[..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks…

— Dan Ariely

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

“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

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

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

— Dan Ariely

“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

“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

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

— Dan Ariely

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

“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

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