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''If you can get attached to a stock, imagine how attached you can be to your house, '' Professor Ariely told me in a telephone interview.

This effect works even for products that have no material effect; Ariely has show that expensive placebos work better than cheap ones.

Mr Ariely explains that the pressure of the potential gain seems to outweigh the motivating force of the reward.

As it turns out 'users' refers to all of us though, at least all of us who have been put under the observation of Dan Ariely.

Dr. Ariely, one of the most prolific authors in his field, does not pretend that he is above this problem himself.

And yet when Ariely phoned the losers offering to sell tickets, they tended to offer around $175.

Dr. Ariely has found that people are more likely to show up on time if they have made a deal with themselves to do so.

The book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely has great information on this, and there's a study linked to on his website.

Dan Ariely: Without the financial crisis, I don't think behavioural economics would have gained the popularity it has.

Ariely spent three years in a hospital after suffering third-degree burns over 70% of his body.

But Mr Ariely and his colleagues demonstrate a mechanism through which such confounding effects could operate.

Ariely says that if there is a difficult decision and a default option, people go with the default.

They were simply asked to drag a circle across a computer screen as many times as they could in five minutes (Heyman & Ariely, 2004).

DAN ARIELY, author of the fascinating Predictably Irrational, has a New York Times op-ed today that's already generating a lot of buzz.

If Ariely describes a rainy day and I describe a sunny one, we are not really contradicting each other.

Her research with Dan Ariely at Duke University appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In Professor Dan Ariely's experiment (video below), ownership increased value eight times.

US economist Dan Ariely has done an experiment to prove this. According to the Atlantic, Ariely pretended he was giving a poetry recital.

Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is more effective than cheap fake medicine.

Dan Ariely blames the dating websites for being poorly designed. I blame you.

Now if you're like the majority of people (64%) in Shampan'er and Ariely's (2006) study you'll go for the $20 gift certificate.

'They make this pre-commitment to ensure their own behavior, ' Dr. Ariely says.

Professors Heyman and Ariely argue that people have a mental split between their social and financial worlds.

Some dating services are also exploring novel ways to overcome the concerns raised by people such as Mr Ariely.

Ms Fisher has a point. But so does Mr Ariely.

I hope I can take Ariely's observations and help them to make myself a better person.

Ariely bases this conclusion on experiments he has conducted on more than 25, 000 people to find out what it would take to make them cheat.

Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers.

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Dan Ariely is professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University

Behavioural economist Dan Ariely on why humans are less rational and moral than you'd think

Regarding the graphic above, Ariely writes:

I did however glean some of Ariely's bigger picture ideas