Dan Ariely
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | April 29, 1967
Nationality | Israeli American |
Education | Cognitive Psychology (PhD) Business Administration (PhD) |
Alma mater | Duke University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tel Aviv University |
Known for | Behavioral Economics |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | Duke University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | James Bettman John G Lynch Jr. |
Website | danariely |
Dan Ariely (Hebrew: דן אריאלי; born April 29, 1967) is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight[1] and co-founder of BEworks,[2] Timeful,[3] Genie[4] and Shapa.[5] Ariely is also associated with Qapital and Lemonade in the capacity of Chief Behavioral Economist and Chief Behavioral Officer, respectively.[6] Ariely's TED talks have been viewed over 10 million times. He is the author of Predictably Irrational,The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty.[7] All three books became New York Times best sellers.[8] He also wrote two semi-books: Irrationally Yours-an illustrated collection of his immensely popular The Wall Street Journal advice column, “Ask Ariely”[9] and Payoff, a short TED book.[10] Ariely was involved in the movie (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies as both a producer and a participant[11] that won numerous awards.[citation needed]
Early life and family
Dan Ariely was born in New York City 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.[7] 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.[7] In his writings Ariely describes how that experience led to his research on "how to better deliver painful and unavoidable treatments to patients."[12]
Ariely is married to Sumi, with whom he has two children, a son and a daughter.[7]
Education and academic career
Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy and psychology. However, in his last year he dropped philosophy and concentrated solely on psychology, in which he received his B.A. in 1991. He also holds an M.A. (1994) and a Ph.D. (1996) in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a second doctorate in business administration at Duke University in 1998 at the urging of Nobel economic sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman.[7]
After obtaining his PhD degree, he taught at MIT between 1998 and 2008, where he was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management and at the MIT Media Lab. In 2008 Ariely returned to Duke University as James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics. And in 2015 he became the University Professor at Duke.
Business activities
Ariely was a founding member of BEworks, the first management consulting firm dedicated to the practice of applying behavioral science to strategy, marketing, operations, and policy challenges. BEworks was acquired by kyu Collective on January 2017.[13]
Ariely, together with Yuval Shoham and Jacob Bank, co-founded Timeful.[3] Timeful is a technology company dedicated to reinventing the way that people manage their most precious resource: time. In 2015 Timeful was sold to Google.[14]
Together with Doron Marco and Ayelet Carasso Dan is a co-founder of Genie,[4] a magical kitchen appliance uniquely designed to create personalized healthy dishes, in about a minute, and together with Nati Lavi Dan is a co-founder of Shapa a health monitoring and encouraging company.[5]
In October 2015, Ariely was named chief behavioral economist for Qapital. Ariely, who has also invested in the company,[15] uses his access to the app's platform and database to assist him in independent research into consumer saving and spending behavior. In turn, Qapital can access Ariely's research to test technologies and ideas for use in the app. Entrepreneur magazine observed that, "It's a synergistic relationship that points at the emergence of a new trend: the collaboration between startups and social scientists."[16]
In February 2016, Ariely joined Lemonade, a full-stack insurance company operating in the U.S., as Chief Behavioral Officer, aiding the company in integrating aspects of behavioral economics into their insurance model and aligning incentives between the insurer and insured.[17]
Books
Ariely is the author of the books Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves. He explains the impetus for his first book"
I have a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, and I have a Ph.D. in business administration. But what I do lies between psychology and economics. I ask questions that economists would ask, but instead of assuming straightaway that people behave rationally, I just observe how people behave. In "Predictably Irrational", I talk about how people think, mostly about financial decisions. The things that we buy. One chapter asks the question, "How do we decide how much something is worth?" Economic theory has a very simple assumption about this. But I ask the question, "How do we really do it?"[18]
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.[19] Asked to describe The Upside of Irrationality, Ariely says,
The first half is about motivation in the workplace. It asks questions like, "What is the real effect of bonuses? What happens when we give high bonuses?" It turns out it motivates people, but it doesn't always bring higher performance. It often actually brings lower performance. Because money can stress people...The second part of "The Upside of Irrationality" is about the personal life. It's about the question, how do we find happiness? And how do we adapt to good and bad things that happen to us? And it's a little bit about emotion.[18]
Michael S. Roth writes of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, "Ariely raises the bar for everyone. In the increasingly crowded field of popular cognitive science and behavioral economics, he writes with an unusual combination of verve and sagacity. He asks us to remember our fallibility and irrationality, so that we might protect ourselves against our tendency to fool ourselves."[20]
In 2008 Ariely, along with his co-authors, Rebecca Waber, Ziv Carmon and Baba Shiv, was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for their research demonstrating that "high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine."[21]
Other works
Center for Advanced Hindsight
Ariely's laboratory, the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, pursues research in subjects like the psychology of money, decision making by physicians and patients, cheating, and social justice. [7]
BEworks
Ariely is the co-founder of BEworks Inc, a firm that applies behavioral economics to business and policy challenges.
Arming the Donkeys
Arming The Donkeys is a podcast of Ariely's interviews with researchers in the fields of social and natural sciences.
Books
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Second edition in 2012., HarperCollins, 2008, p. 304, ISBN 978-0-06-135323-9, OCLC 182521026
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- The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, HarperCollins, 2012, p. 255, ISBN 978-0-06-218359-0, OCLC 757484553
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Articles
- Ariely, Dan; Zauberman, Gal (2000), "On the making of an experience: The effects of breaking and combining experiences on their overall evaluation" (PDF), Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13 (2): 219–232, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(200004/06)13:2<219::AID-BDM331>3.0.CO;2-P
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(help) - Ariely, Dan (1998), "Combining experiences over time: the effects of duration, intensity changes and on-line measurements on retrospective pain evaluations", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 11 (1): 19–45, doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(199803)11:1<19::aid-bdm277>3.0.co;2-b
- Ariely, Dan; Loewenstein, George; Prelec, Drazen (2003), "Coherent Arbitrariness: Stable demand curves without stable preferences", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (1): 73–106, doi:10.1162/00335530360535153
- Ariely, Dan; Carmon, Ziv (2000), "Gestalt Characteristics of Experiences: The Defining Features of Summarized Events" (PDF), Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13: 191–201, doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(200004/06)13:2<191::aid-bdm330>3.0.co;2-a
- Ariely, Dan (2000), "Controlling information flow: Effects on consumers' decision making and preference", Journal of Consumer Research, 27 (2): 233–248, doi:10.1086/314322
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(help) - Ariely, Dan; Wertenbroch, Klaus (2002), "Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment" (PDF), Psychological Science, 13 (3): 219–224, doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00441, PMID 12009041
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(help) - Heyman, James; Ariely, Dan (2004), "Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two markets" (PDF), Psychological Science, 15 (11): 787–793(7), doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00757.x, PMID 15482452
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(help) - Ariely, Dan; Loewenstein, George; Prelec, Drazen (2006), "Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value" (PDF), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 60: 1–10, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2004.10.003
- Carmon, Ziv; Ariely, Dan (2000), "Focusing on the Forgone: Why Value can Appear so Different to Buyers and Sellers" (PDF), Journal of Consumer Research, 27: 360–370, doi:10.1086/317590
- Shiv, Baba; Carmon, Ziv; Ariely, Dan (2005), "Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For" (PDF), Journal of Marketing Research, XXII: 383–393
- Mazar, Nina; Ariely, Dan (2006), "Dishonesty in Everyday Life and Its Policy Implications" (PDF), Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25 (1)
- Lee, Leonard; Frederick, Shane; Ariely, Dan (2006), "Try it, you'll like it: The influence of expectation, consumption, and revelation on preferences for beer" (PDF), Psychological Science, 17 (12): 1054–1058, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01829.x
- Ariely, Dan; Michael Norton (January 2008). "How Actions Create-Not Just Reveal-Preferences" (PDF). Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-20.
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Audio and video appearances
- How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised (TED2015)
- Are we in control of our own decisions? (EG 2008)
- Our buggy moral code (TED2009)
- Beware conflicts of interest (TED2011)
- What makes us feel good about our work? (TEDxRiodelaPlata 2012)
- Learning First Alliance interview with Ariely
- Jewish World News Interview with Dan Ariely
- Skepticality Podcast, 2-22-11, Dan Ariely, The Upside of Irrationality
- Scientific American Podcast, 12-29-12, Dan Ariely, Creativity and Dishonesty
- The Amazing Meeting July 2013, Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
- Documentary about the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Dan Ariely is Interviewed
- Self control: The problem and How to get over it
- (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
See also
References
- ^ Dan Ariely | Center for Advanced Hindsight
- ^ http://beworks.com/Our-Story
- ^ a b https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/05/google-acquisition-timeful-dan-ariely/#68e9a02b305e
- ^ a b http://genie.cooking/genie_about_us.php
- ^ a b https://www.shapa.me
- ^ "A top psychologist says insurance sucks, so he's joining a startup to fix it". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
- ^ a b c d e f When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://danariely.com/books/irrationally-yours/
- ^ http://danariely.com/books/payoff/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2630898/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt)
- ^ Ariely, Dan. "Painful Lessons" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-05-14.
- ^ Nusca, Andrew, "Exclusive: IDEO Investor Kyu Acquires BEworks, a Behavioral Economics Firm", Fortune, 9 January 2017
- ^ "Time is on your side—welcoming Timeful to Google". Google Blog.
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(help) - ^ Anderson, Jenny, "The Savings App Designed by a Behavioral Economist", The Atlantic, 5 November 2015
- ^ Entis, Laura, "How This Famous Behavioral Economist Is Trying to Help People Solve Their Most Common Money Problems", Entrepreneur, 13 October 2015
- ^ "Oh, Behave!". Lemonade Blog.
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- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-roth/dan-ariely-dishonesty_b_1769685.html
- ^ "Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize". Improbable Research. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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