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When it comes to the mental wo...

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations we could design a better world.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

There's something about [cycli...

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

The bad news is that ignoring ...

The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying 'uh huh,' [you] dramatically improve people's motivations.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

When we think about labor, we ...

When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it Ђ' meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Thinking is difficult and some...

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Companies, however
unint...

Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Take a brilliant, creative soc...

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

People are irrational - and pr...

People are irrational - and predictably so.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Brands communicate in two dire...

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

The experiments show quite cle...

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Because cheating is easier whe...

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Even the most analytical think...

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

In terms of the actual curricu...

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.

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The retail industry has its ow...

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

What kind of people would be a...

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.

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We should teach the students, ...

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 102 quotes

I always found the appeal to t...

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

It is true that from a behavio...

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

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In a world where everyone is b...

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.

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Honesty is a complex and trick...

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Dan Ariely 102 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....