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Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely speaking at TED, 2009
Born (1968-04-29) April 29, 1968 (age 56)
NationalityIsraeli American
Academic career
FieldBehavioral economics
InstitutionDuke University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma materDuke University
University of North Carolina
Tel Aviv University

Dan Ariely (born April 29, 1968) is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics.[1] He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight.[2]Ariely's talks on TED have been watched 2.8 million times. He is the author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, both of which became New York Times best sellers.[3]

Biography

Dan Ariely was born in New York while his father was studying for an MBA degree at Columbia University. The family returned to Israel when he was three. He grew up in Ramat Hasharon. [4] In his senior year of high school, he was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body. [5]

Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy and psychology when he found the writing too physically taxing. However, in his last year he dropped philosophy and concentrated solely on psychology, in which he received his B.A. He also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He did a second doctorate in business administration at Duke University at the urging of Nobel economic sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman.[6]

Ariely is married to Sumi, with whom he has two children, a son and a daughter.[7]

Academic career

After obtaining his PhD degree, he taught at MIT between 1998 and 2008, before returning to Duke University as James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management. Although he is a professor of marketing with no formal training in economics, he is considered one of the leading behavioral economists. Ariely is the author of the books Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions and The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home. When asked whether reading Predictably Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could make a person's life worse (such as by defeating the benefits of a placebo), Ariely responded that there could be a short term cost, but that there would also likely be long-term benefits, and that reading his book would not make a person worse off.[8]

Center of Advanced Hindsight

Ariely's laboratory, the Center of Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, pursues research in such subjects as the psychology of money, decision-making by physicians and patients, cheating and social justice.[9]

Publications

Books

  • Ariely, Dan (2008), Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, HarperCollins, p. 304, ISBN 978-0-06-135323-9 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Ariely, Dan (2010), The Upside of Irrationality, HarperCollins, p. 352, ISBN 978-0-06-199503-3 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |unused_data= ignored (help)

Articles

See also

References

  1. ^ Dan Ariely. NNDB.
  2. ^ Dan Ariely | The Center
  3. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
  4. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
  5. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
  6. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
  7. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
  8. ^ "Predictably Irrational Is an Irresistible Look at Our Not-So-Rational Foibles" Derek Tokaz, The Commentator, Feb. 28, 2008,
  9. ^ When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature

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