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Dan Ariely

About

Dan Ariely holds a joint appointment between MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. He is the principal investigator of the Lab's eRationality group and a visiting professor at Duke University. Dan is also a visiting scholar at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, a fellow at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, and President elect of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University, his master’s and doctorate degrees in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Duke University. He the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.

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Recent Posts
Beware: Happiness Is Contagious

Social scientists used to have a straightforward, if tongue-in-cheek, answer to the question of how to become happy: Surround yourself with people who are uglier, poorer and shorter than you are—and who are unhappily married and have annoying kids. You will compare yourself with these people, and the contrast will cheer you up.

Social scientists used to have a straightforward, if tongue-in-cheek, answer to the question of how to become happy: Surround yourself with people who are uglier, poorer and shorter than you are—and who are unhappily married and have annoying kids. You will compare yourself with these people, and the contrast will cheer you up.

Is Business Education Valuable?

Derek Bok, the 25th President of Harvard, famously said: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” What we need is more business education, not less.

Derek Bok, the 25th President of Harvard, famously said: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” What we need is more business education, not less.