"It is true that from a behavioral economics……" — 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 Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!"
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39 Quotes by Dan Ariely
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Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone…
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random…
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Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of…
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Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help…
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That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is…
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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we…
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The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t…
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When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we…
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
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The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front…
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When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is…
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Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
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These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
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The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is…
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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know…
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Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than…
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