Dan Ariely

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition

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  • Timur Gabdulovhas quoted2 years ago
    Why We Often Pay Too Much When We Pay Nothing
  • Hsadikhof90has quoted3 years ago
    Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living.
  • ainevlahas quoted3 years ago
    Indeed, just thinking about money makes us behave as most economists believe we behave—and less like the social animals we are in our daily lives.
  • ainevlahas quoted3 years ago
    SO WE LIVE in two worlds: one characterized by social exchanges and the other characterized by market exchanges. And we apply different norms to these two kinds of relationships.
  • ainevlahas quoted3 years ago
    when a social norm collides with a market norm, the social norm goes away for a long time. In other words, social relationships are not easy to reestablish. Once the bloom is off the rose—once a social norm is trumped by a market norm—it will rarely return.
  • ainevlahas quoted3 years ago
    state what you give and what you expect in return. Since you’re not setting up any social norms or expectations, you also can’t violate any—after all, it’s just business.
  • ainevlahas quoted3 years ago
    that every one of us, regardless of how “good” we are, underpredicts the effect of passion on our behavior.
  • Hsadikhof90has quoted3 years ago
    Tom had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
  • Hsadikhof90has quoted3 years ago
    we not only tend to compare things with one another but also tend to focus on comparing things that are easily comparable—and avoid comparing things that cannot be compared easily.
  • Hsadikhof90has quoted3 years ago
    most people don’t know what they want unless they see it in context. We don’t know what kind of racing bike we want—until we see a champ in the Tour de France ratcheting the gears on a particular model. We don’t know what kind of speaker system we like—until we hear a set of speakers that sounds better than the previous one. We don’t even know what we want to do with our lives—until we find a relative or a friend who is doing just what we think we should be doing. Everything is relative, and that’s the point. Like an airplane pilot landing in the dark, we want runway lights on either side of us, guiding us to the place where we can touch down our wheels.
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