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Dan Ariely, Professor of Business Administration

HI, I'M DAN ARIELY. I do research in behavioral economics and try to describe it in plain language. These findings have enriched my life, and my hope is that they will do the same for you.

My immersive introduction to irrationality took place many years ago while I was overcoming injuries sustained in an explosion. The range of treatments in the burn department, and particularly the daily “bath” made me face a variety of irrational behaviors that were immensely painful and persistent. Upon leaving the hospital, I wanted to understand how to better deliver painful and unavoidable treatments to patients, so I began conducting research in this area.

I became engrossed with the idea that we repeatedly and predictably make the wrong decisions in many aspects of our lives and that research could help change some of these patterns.

Irrationally YoursPredictably IrrationalThe Upside of Irrationality,The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, the movie Dishonesty and the card game Irrational Game are my attempt to take my research findings and describe them in non academic terms, so that more people will learn about this type of research, discover the excitement of behavioral economics, and possibly use some of the insights to enrich their own lives.

In terms of official positions, I am a Professor of Business Administration at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

My free time is spent working on a guide to the kitchen and life—Dining Without Crumbs: The Art of Eating Over the Kitchen Sink—and of course, studying the irrational ways we all behave.

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Web Page:  http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/dan-ariely

Education:

Ph.D.Duke University1998
Ph.D.University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill1996
B.A.Tel Aviv University (Israel)1991
Research Interests: Behavioral Economics

Areas of Interest:

Behavioral Economics

Keywords:

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Mitkidis, P; Perkovic, S; Nichols, A; Elbæk, CT; Gerlach, P; Ariely, D, Morality in minimally deceptive environments., Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied, vol. 30 no. 1 (March, 2024), pp. 48-61 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Landry, AP; Fincher, K; Barr, N; Brosowsky, NP; Protzko, J; Ariely, D; Seli, P, Harnessing dehumanization theory, modern media, and an intervention tournament to reduce support for retributive war crimes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 111 (March, 2024) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Diamond, JE; Kaltenbach, LA; Granger, BB; Fonarow, GC; Al-Khalidi, HR; Albert, NM; Butler, J; Allen, LA; Lanfear, DE; Thibodeau, JT; Granger, CB; Hernandez, AF; Ariely, D; DeVore, AD, Access to Mobile Health Interventions Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Insights Into the Digital Divide From the CONNECT-HF mHealth Substudy., Circ Heart Fail, vol. 17 no. 2 (February, 2024), pp. e011140 [doi]
  4. Nichols, AD; Axt, J; Gosnell, E; Ariely, D, A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members., Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 7 no. 12 (December, 2023), pp. 2212-2227 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Bartmann, N; Rayburn-Reeves, R; Lindemans, J; Ariely, D, Does Real Age Feedback Really Motivate Us to Change our Lifestyle? Results from an Online Experiment., Health Communication, vol. 38 no. 9 (October, 2023), pp. 1744-1753 [doi]  [abs]


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