Dan Ariely
21 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2018 by Dan Ariely · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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May 25, 2018
Treating actions as repeated large decisions prevents ethical discounting
“By both thinking about it, not as a one time, but as a multiple time and not as a small decision by a large decision, you bringing into context that is more, more extensive and you're less likely to basically give yourself a discount and say, we're just doing …”
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 positive
May 25, 2018 neutral
May 25, 2018 positive
Research lab managers should serve staff rather than supervise them
“My style is to hire very good people and to tell them that I'm here when they need me, but I don't need to supervise them. So I say, when you need me, I'm here. I'm at your disposal. I'm at your service rather than you at my service. And when you need me, just…”
May 25, 2018
People invent internal rationalizations to justify choices driven by defaults
“So, so what happened is that we are so quick in telling ourselves stories about why what we did was actually the right thing that we convince ourselves. We kind of hide this, not just not just from other people, but from ourselves, and we end up thinking that …”
May 25, 2018
Strict binary rules prevent self-deception better than flexible limits
“So if you said, for example, I'm going to eat dessert on only one out of every four days, odds are that you would cheat yourself, that you will end up eating more dessert than you wanted. But if you had a rule that says, I never eat dessert, or I only eat dess…”
May 25, 2018 negative
May 25, 2018 negative
Almost no company is willing to seriously address institutional dishonesty
“It's kind of interesting that when you talk about, you know, how to get people to save more, it's easier to get people to do something, how to get people to be healthier. But when you talk about honesty, almost no company is interested in taking like a real, r…”
May 25, 2018
Stepping on a morning scale serves as a daily health reminder
“We know it's a good thing to step on a scale every morning, not so good to step on it in the evening, and it's good to step on it in the morning, not because we weigh less than in the evening, but because in the morning when we step on it reminds us that we wa…”
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 positive
Proactively redesigning personal environments yields better health and productivity
“Take this idea of redesign the environment very seriously. Right. Don't be a slave to the environment that somebody else created for you and redesign the environment is most likely to yield good, good results. And this includes productivity and health and mone…”
May 25, 2018 positive
Hire people you love first and determine their roles later
“So one of my rules is to only work with people I love. And when I meet people I really like, I usually just hire them and then I worry less about what to do with them. Like, you know, I don't, I usually don't have a project and I say I need somebody with skill…”
May 25, 2018
People cheat just enough to still maintain a positive self-image
“The amount of dishonesty that we exhibit ends up being a balance between wanting to benefit from dishonesty But not wanting to feel that we're thieves or dishonest people. So we cheat up to the level that we would feel uncomfortable about it. So, so it's very …”
May 25, 2018 neutral
Pluralistic ignorance leads groups to misinterpret inaction as informed consensus
“Pluralistic ignorance is the idea that when we are in the company of other people and we look at the behavior of other people as indicating what the right thing to do is, and what other people are knowing, and therefore we interpret their own behavior in that …”
May 25, 2018
Complex and deliberate actions require explicit rules rather than habits
“And you can't have a habit of running, right? You don't go running and then you say, oh, where am I? I have no idea. I was running. So, so for things that are deliberate and take actions, you need something more than a habit.”
May 25, 2018 positive
Shaper scale users lost weight while standard scale users gained it
“So we just finished a large study. Some people got the regular scale and those people gained a little bit of weight every month. And some people got our scale and they lost 0.7% of their body weight every month for five months. The people with the regular scal…”
May 25, 2018
Adopting an external advisor's perspective reduces personal bias in decision-making
“One simple recommendation is to think about yourself as an advisor, not about your own interest. So what would you advise somebody like you to do? And when you advise somebody external, then you're not as influenced by your own biases, right? And you could do …”
May 25, 2018
Abstract dishonesty experiment found identical cheating rates across all countries
“Then Francesca Gino, my friend, said, ah, come to Italy. We'll show you what the Italians can do. The Italians cheated just the same. We tried Turkey. We tried South Africa, Kenya, Germany, Sweden. We tried Portugal. We tried the UK. We tried Canada because th…”
May 25, 2018
Recruiters secretly prefer hiring candidates who will cheat for the company
“We gave MBAs resumes of potential job candidates. And in those resumes, those people were either told, said that they were, it was said about them that they were either dishonest in their personal lives, like to the significant other. They were dishonest at wo…”
May 25, 2018 neutral
Ariely reads nonsense to students to demonstrate pluralistic ignorance
“I start the class By taking a paragraph from some post-modern literature, a text generator, something, you know, crazy that you don't understand what's going on... And I just read this for five minutes, and, you know, and it's the first class, it's first class…”