Resources for the Research Community
Last summer I interviewed one of my idols, Duke Professor Dan Ariely. The interview has proven to be very popular, but to this point we have only published the audio of the interview. By popular demand, here is the full text of my interview with Dr. Ariely. Dana Stanley: Good afternoon, Professor Ariely. Dan Ariely: [...]
As some of you might know, Daniel Kahneman is a renowned Israeli-American psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work in prospect theory, which challenged some of the field’s fundamental assumptions about the rationality of human behavior. As one example, he explained why losses are negative valued more than gains [...]
It will come as no surprise to regular Research Access readers that we are fans of the field of behavioral economics. The inclusion of the word “economics” in the term can be a bit misleading. Essentially, for our purposes, we can think of BE as a school of thought that seeks to understand social psychological [...]
Anyone involved in survey research today should keep abreast of the lessons of behavioral economics. However, it can be challenging at best to keep up on the latest academic research. Luckily for us, Dan Ariely, one of the luminaries of behavioral economics, has written several books that are accessible and highly entertaining guides to the [...]
