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Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely
Israeli Economist
Born: Apr 29, 1967
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Related authors: Adam Smith Alan Greenspan E. F. Schumacher John Kenneth Galbraith John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Thomas Sowell
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator. Dan Ariely
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves. Dan Ariely
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. Dan Ariely
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time. Dan Ariely
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. Dan Ariely
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next. Dan Ariely
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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. Dan Ariely
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay. Dan Ariely
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. Dan Ariely
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I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them? Dan Ariely
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge. Dan Ariely
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