Dan Ariely (on behavioral economics)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Dan Ariely is a social scientist, professor, and author. Dan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people often want to regulate other’s behavior, what factors can affect workplace employees’ motivations, and how people live in different realities from each other. Dan and Dax talk about the funnel of misbelief, what happens when people are excluded from a group, and how to engage people with differing opinions from your own. Dan explains how people proclaim their identities to others, what responsibility there is to verify data used in research, and the true societal role of a social scientist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.5	Welcome, welcome, welcome to our chair expert experts on expert.
0:03.7	I'm Dan Arieli and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:07.2	Hi, I always say Dan Shepherd and our guest is Dan Arieli.
0:11.1	So it just felt right to do it immediately.
0:15.2	Dan is a social scientist, best-selling author and professor of psychology
0:19.6	and behavioral economics at Duke University.
0:23.0	He's written a ton of wonderful books, predictably irrational,
0:26.3	the upside of irrationality, dollars and cents, pay off, and the honest truth about dishonesty.
0:32.5	He has a new book called Misbelief.
0:35.8	What makes rational people believe irrational things?
0:39.7	So we get into the nitty-gritty on conspiracy theories, which is really fun.
0:45.6	It was and the funnel of misbelief.
0:47.8	He really breaks that down, which is really interesting.
0:50.8	Yes, an important, I think.
0:52.7	Really enjoyed this interview so much.
0:56.4	Yeah, also we're sick.
1:01.3	Not in the interview.
1:02.4	No, we weren't in the interview, but we are in the intro, and in the fact,
1:07.0	but don't worry, we weren't on the day.
1:08.4	We're not contagious to you.
1:09.6	Yeah, you can't catch it right now, but we're all dying inside the satellite, but that's okay.
1:14.4	Please enjoy Dan Arieli.
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