Dan Ariely
Behavioral economist and author
Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American professor at Duke University who studies how people make decisions, including irrational ones. He wrote Predictably Irrational.
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Born 1967 in New York City, United States
About Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely was born in New York and grew up in Israel. He studied at Tel Aviv University, then earned a master's degree and doctorate in cognitive psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a second doctorate in business at Duke University. He has also held posts at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ariely has written Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, three New York Times bestsellers. He has also written Dollars and Sense. He was a co-producer of the 2015 documentary film (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies. Between 2012 and 2022 he contributed the Ask Ariely advice column to The Wall Street Journal. He has co-founded a number of companies that put findings from behavioral science to practical use. His life, his research and Predictably Irrational were the inspiration for The Irrational, an NBC television series from 2023. Since 2021, questions have been raised about the reliability of some of his research, and two articles have been retracted.