TED Talks Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
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Understanding the economic decisions of individuals. Why humans make the decisions they do?
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TED Talks Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. Delete the scoop?
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Watch Professor Robert Frank as he argues that in the next century Charles Darwin will unseat Adam Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. Listen to ...
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TED Talks Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
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Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment.. Delete the scoop?
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Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman addresses the Georgetown class of 2009 about the merits of behavioral economics.He deconstructs the assumption... Delete the scoop?
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Ariely wanted to break out of the strict form of an academic paper. Delete the scoop?
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Does money buy happiness? The debate is not just of philosophical interest; it also has important policy implications. Delete the scoop?
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When you shop for mating partners, you can’t always get what you want By Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D.... Delete the scoop?
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Beneath the biases of intuition, or how your experiencing self and your remembering self shape your life.
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"The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context," says evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad, "as the peacock's tail is on the peacock." Saad... Delete the scoop?
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There may be a sexual upside to an economic downside; more sex. Delete the scoop?
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When it comes to the concept of competition, Charles Darwin described economic reality far more accurately than Adam Smith, says Robert H. Frank in a new book. Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. Delete the scoop?
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