Dan Ariely
23 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2019 by Dan Ariely · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Apr 1, 2019
Ariely: Increasing pain intensity worsens memory far more than extending duration
“I found out that if you have a period of pain, and you make it longer, you don't actually remember it as worse, but if you change the amplitude, the intensity, you can make it much worse, and the nurses were doing the wrong thing. They were trying to minimize …”
Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Ariely: Lemonade eliminates insurance conflicts by donating residual claims pools to charity
“So we decided to create an insurance company that takes a fixed amount of profit. When people sign up, they sign up around the charity. So let's say there's a thousand people that sign up around the World Wildlife Fund. They sign up around the World Wildlife F…”
Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
Ariely: People under-save because modern savings and insurance are socially invisible
“Every time we save or buy insurance, we don't get any positive reinforcement. Not from ourselves and not from the people around us. So think about the time when people used to save in goats, right? If you saved in livestock, you could come home from the office…”
Apr 1, 2019 bullish
Ariely: Human capital factors almost universally outperform the S&P 500 in backtests
“It turns out that all of those strategies but one, all of these building blocks at one, beats the S&P on that time period, and the one that does worse is like tiny bit worse. Not all of them do as well as others. It's a You know, there's a range, but one from …”
Apr 1, 2019
Ariely: Expensive painkillers relieve more pain than identical cheap ones
“So in one study, we checked what happens when we give people expensive medications and cheap medication, and we show that the expensive medication create higher belief, and therefore they're also more effective. So we gave people electrical shocks, and we saw …”
May 17, 2021 neutral
May 17, 2021 positive
Ariely: Directly asking employees beats proxy metrics like sick days
“And when we don't look at what's happening inside people's brains, and we look at other things instead, we're giving up a lot. So for example, think about something like sick days. Sick days is obviously a really good indication of how excited people are about…”
May 17, 2021 positive
Ariely: ESG drives profitability primarily through employee motivation
“I think that the real pathway is For ESG, goes through employee motivation. If you think about it, the moment you are doing some version of ESG, presumably your employees are more on board. They feel that the company has better goals, the company is more conne…”
May 17, 2021
Ariely: Employees adapt to office perks, but appreciation yields lasting motivation
“If you think about things like better coffee, better tables, better chairs compared to feeling appreciated, There's just no comparison, and the thing that happens there is if you get better coffee, and I'm a big fan of coffee, so I love good coffee, if you get…”
May 17, 2021 positive
May 17, 2021 neutral
Ariely: Sector-specific human capital models are no better than universal models
“So we didn't do this research during COVID, but we did, of course, in the pre-COVID data, right, from 2006 and on, and we found no difference. When you do kind of statistical modeling, there's what's called nested models. So you could say, let me create a mode…”
May 17, 2021 positive
Ariely: Human motivation factors drive impact across all industries, not just tech
“There are big differences about people care, and we can all imagine how people who care at Google are going to create a bigger impact, but no, people who care, it would manifest everywhere. So the things that we're capturing are Feeling appreciated. Feeling th…”
May 17, 2021
Ariely: The intra-empathy gap causes major mistakes in judging motivation
“This question, by the way, is about how difficult it is for us to estimate emotional states of things we don't experience, and it's also connected to our discussion here today, because, you know, when you are setting up a motivation for your employees, you're …”
May 17, 2021 negative
Ariely: Activist investors trying to reform corporate culture misunderstand it
“And I think that a lot of investors, a lot of activist investor look at companies where they don't like the culture and they say, let me buy that company and influence the culture. But I don't think they systematically understand the culture.”
May 17, 2021 negative
Ariely: Token female leadership appointments make female employees feel worse
“We found that some companies, when they assign women to high positions, The women within these companies feel worse. Why? Because they take it as an indication that the company doesn't really care about them, that they're only doing things to appeal to PR, lik…”
May 17, 2021 positive
Ariely: Third-party surveys yield better employee data than internal collection
“When we ask people with these data providers, it is very important that the data is being collected by a third party. You know, if the company is trying to collect the data directly from employees, there's always a risk that people are trying to create some im…”
May 17, 2021 neutral
May 17, 2021 positive
May 17, 2021
Ariely: HR should operate as an R&D function, not legal compliance
“HR in most company is a procedural process. Legal function. They do the sexual misconduct and the module. They worry about procedural things. I think that HR needs to be an R&D function. They need to continuously try different things and improve how the compan…”
May 17, 2021 neutral
Ariely: Employee health and financial benefits only boosted performance during COVID-19
“So before COVID, we found that employee benefits didn't make a big difference. Financial benefits, health benefits didn't matter. During COVID, there was actually a positive effect of these benefits, and I think it's because period when people are more worried…”
May 17, 2021 positive
Ariely: High-appreciation firms gained 15% in early COVID versus 5% market average
“The companies in general, if I remember correctly, between March and October, the stock market lost a lot and then gained a lot, and it was about five percent net overall. The companies that I'll tell you now about went up by 15%. That's a big gap, and those c…”