Books by Dan Ariely
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review 1: I can't get enough of these books. As always, a fascinating selection of articles. Learned about the science of crowd catastrophes, people who compete in Turing test competitions, human pheromones, and turning on certain genes in modern organisms to express ancestral traits. The ...
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review 1: I am currently a Psychology Major and so I was introduced to Dan Ariely's work, got to see a few of his presentations online, and got to read a few sample chapters from his two books in my Motivation Psychology course this past spring semester. Decided to read this to read more ...
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review 1: Dan Ariely certainly has a penchant for making an otherwise boring topic on its head, making it fun, and most importantly, understandable to anyone of any field of interest. One does not have to even have the slightest background in social science, psychology, or economics to und...
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review 1: fascinating look at why we may lie and cheat, and how we can help make it better ... or worse. While I can't say if the tests had a large enough sample to be valid, the conclusions pass the smell test. In general, we aren't "rational actors" (good) and our general nature is to ch...
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review 1: This was my very first book on behavioral economics and, of course, the first one from Dan. And I loved it! I loved the ingenuity of the tests that Dan and his team devised to test and confirm the quirkiness of human nature. The outcome of the tests were, shall I say, predictable...
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review 1: On display in the new nonfiction, and I recognized the author's name. I've got four of his titles on my List, but I haven't actually read anything by him yet. We'll see.***Ariely covers his research into cheating and lying, as well as the research of others in the field. As I not...
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review 1: Dit drieluik is absoluut de moeite waard voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in psychologie en hoe een wetenschappelijk experiment in de psychologie wordt opgesteld.Eén sterretje minder echter omdat zo'n e-boek toch wel een aantal belangrijke nadelen heeft ten opzichte van het pa...