User talk:SSEEGGilbert/Dan Ariely

PUBLISHED 5-30-14 EDITION

Editing assignment:

Go to this page... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ariely The External Link area is almost too many links for a page his size. I think that the interviews listed there need to be removed and added to the body of the article.

Also remove his official website from the E.L. area and list it on his info box instead.

Creating User page to trial run above edits.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-us-feel-good-about-our-work-dan-ariely

Experiment of meaningful vs. sisyphic tasks; i.e. build bionicles for declining amounts of money with product placed under the table vs. product torn apart as completed.

Importance of meaning in work, lack of meaning a demotivator.

"Ignoring the efforts of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort before their eyes."

"The good news is that adding motivation doesn't seem to be so difficult, the bad news is that eliminating motivation seems to be incredibly easy and if we don't think about it carefully, we might overdo it."

=http://www.learningfirst.org/predictably-irrational-conversation-best-selling-author-dan-ariely= Interview with education perspective

"I have a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, and I have a Ph.D. in business administration. But what I do lies between psychology and economics. I ask questions that economists would ask, but instead of assuming straightaway that people behave rationally, I just observe how people behave."

"In Predictably Irrational, I talk about how people think, mostly about financial decisions. The things that we buy. One chapter asks the question, "How do we decide how much something is worth?" Economic theory has a very simple assumption about this. But I ask the question, "How do we really do it?""

The Upside of Irrationality, the second book, has two [parts]. The first half is about motivation in the workplace. It asks questions like, "What is the real effect of bonuses? What happens when we give high bonuses?" It turns out it motivates people, but it doesn't always bring higher performance. It often actually brings lower performance. Because money can stress people...The second part of The Upside of Irrationality is about the personal life. It's about the question, how do we find happiness? And how do we adapt to good and bad things that happen to us? And it's a little bit about emotion."

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/what-it-feels-like-to-know-what-we-re-all-thinking-1.422824

“I am trying to understand which decisions people make in a way that is not ideal and how it is possible to improve that. The belief in conventional economics is that people are good and smart and rational. But I look at the world, and the idea that this world is a function of billions of rational people − which is what we have arrived at − is pretty shocking. So, we in behavioral economics are a little less optimistic about human nature. We think that the world is a function of confused, emotional people, and that if we help them, things could be a lot better.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by SSEEGGilbert (talk • contribs) 21:58, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

https://www.33voices.com/interviews/dan-ariely Nothing new, business focus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SSEEGGilbert (talk • contribs) 22:40, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-honest-truth-about-dishonesty--by-dan-ariely/2012/08/10/4f1864e8-ab53-11e1-93e5-222602b337cd_story.html "Ariely raises the bar for everyone. In the increasingly crowded field of popular cognitive science and behavioral economics, he writes with an unusual combination of verve and sagacity. He asks us to remember our fallibility and irrationality, so that we might protect ourselves against our tendency to fool ourselves."

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/2237-new-videos-from-the-amazng-meeting-2013.html

http://www.skepticality.com/the-upside-of-irrationality/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/dan-ariely-talks-creativity-and-dis-12-12-29/