 Dan Ariely speaking at TED, 2009 |
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| Birth | 1968 (age 40–41) |
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| Nationality | Israeli American |
| Institution | Duke University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Field | Behavioral economics |
| Alma mater | Duke University University of North Carolina Tel Aviv University |
Dan Ariely (born 1968) is an Israeli professor of behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Biography
Dan Ariely was born in New York while his father was studying for a degree at Columbia University, but grew up in Ramat Gan and Ramat Hasharon, Israel. [1] His mother was a parole officer. [1] When he was 18 and a newly enlisted soldier of the IDF he suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental magnesium flare explosion.[2]
Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy when he found the writing too physically taxing.[1] He also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University.
Ariely is married and has two children.[1]
Academic career
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 training in economics, he is considered one of the leading behavioral economists. Ariely is the author of the book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Ariely 2008), which was published on February 19, 2008 by HarperCollins. 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.[3]
Published works
- Ariely, Dan (2008). Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. HarperCollins. pp. 304. ISBN 9780061353239.
- Try it, you'll like it: The influence of expectation, consumption, and revelation on preferences for beer
- Dishonesty in Everyday Life and Its Policy Implications
- Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For
- Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value
- Heyman, James; Ariely, Dan (2004). "Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two markets". Psychological Science 15 (11): 787-793(7). http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/2markets.pdf.
- Ariely, Dan; Wertenbroch, Klaus (2002). "Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment". Psychological Science 13 (3): 219-224. http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/deadlines.pdf.
- Ariely, Dan (2001). "Seeing sets: Representation by statistical properties". Psychological Science 12 (2): 157-162. http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/spot.pdf.
- Ariely, Dan (2000). "Controlling information flow: Effects on consumers' decision making and preference". Journal of Consumer Research 27 (2): 233-248. doi:. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/314322.
- Coherent Arbitrariness: Stable demand curves without stable preferences
- Combining experiences over time: the effects of duration, intensity changes and on-line measurements on retrospective pain evaluations
- Ariely, Dan; Zauberman, Gal (2000). "On the making of an experience: The effects of breaking and combining experiences on their overall evaluation". Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 13: 219-232. http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/expseg.pdf.
References
- ^ a b c d From Crisis to Couch, Haaretz
- ^ Author Dan Ariely puts rationality to the test - The Boston Globe
- ^ "Predictably Irrational Is an Irresistible Look at Our Not-So-Rational Foibles" Derek Tokaz, The Commentator, Feb. 28, 2008, http://www.law.nyu.edu/studentorgs/commentator/past_issues/commentator_20080228.pdf
See also
External links
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Official Website
- Ariely's MIT Home Page
- Keynote speech given at Neural Information Processing Systems 2006
- Article about Ariely in CIO Magazine
- ABC Radio National interview transcript, 30 March 2008
- Keynote speech given at MarketingProfs Conference, May 2008
- Lecture (audio and slides) - Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions - delivered at the LSE
- Dan Ariely’s home page at Learn From My Life. Links to his books, articles, videos, podcasts, media news references
- Interview with Dan Ariely, May 18, 2008
- Dan Ariely's Profile on TED.com - Includes 2 Lectures
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