Is college too expensive and are free online courses the answer to the rising cost of full-time college? Dan Ariely’s not so sure. Photo courtesy of Flickr user DG Jones. MOOCs. Massive Open Online ...

Editor’s Note: Dan Ariely, a noted behavioral economist at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational, is different from many of his economist colleagues. Ariely studies irrationality in ...

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 ...

Logical thinking has its limits when it comes to motivating your team. In his new book, The Upside of Irrationality, Duke professor Dan Ariely explains how we benefit from the human predilection for ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to the science of bad decisions, few know as much as Dan Ariely. A professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke, Ariely (who also wrote the bestseller Predictably Irrational) ...

Ariely (Payoff), a psychology professor, and Kreisler (Get Rich Cheating), a comedian, zero in on the average person’s relationship to money in this valuable guide. Part one, “What Is Money,” and part ...

Dan Ariely, a professor at Duke University who's widely considered one of the most prominent leaders in the field of behavioral economics, shared his perspective on the surprise presidential victory ...

Welcome to Black Friday, perhaps the most American of all American holidays. Certainly merchants are hoping so. Given the state of retail-store sales you can understand their need for a strong ...

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 ...