I spoke to Dan Ariely, the author of Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, about why he decided to focus on money for his book, why the world of personal finance is ...

Back in the dim distant days of technology, there was a wedge between people and computers. Software was complicated, had strange keyboard commands, error messages ...

Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely boldly stated in a recent Harvard Business Review article that highly trained monkeys could do the same job of financial advisors. Ariely, the author of ...

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Ariely studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to ...

People crowd the aisles inside Macy’s department store in New York City during last year’s Black Friday sales. Photo by Stan Homda/AFP/Getty Images. Well, in the best tradition of bait-and-switch, ...

Dan Ariely is the author of Predictable Irrationality, a favorite book around Fool HQ, and -- oh yeah -- he's also the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University ...

In mid-July, a crowd filled the lower level of The Regulator Bookshop in Durham beyond capacity for a talk by the Duke professor and best-selling author Dan Ariely. His new book, The Upside of ...

“Lots of us are able to cheat a little bit and still think of ourselves as honest people.” Dan Ariely is a professor of behavior economics at Duke University. His latest book, The (Honest) Truth About ...

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If you think about the process of de-cumulating wealth, and making the rational decision, it's really, very, very tough. We focus on inequality of the top side but the real terrible thing is it's the ...

A climate of rule breaking and immorality trickles down from the top, which doesn’t speak well to our current situation. Would you cheat on a test to get money? Would you steal from an envelope of ...