Decisions we make...

[Kyra.Graves]

I know I've mentioned Dan Ariely before but some recent posts on Terb have had me reflecting on his work and I thought I'd post a few of my favorite links. He's a Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT and also the Director for The Center for Advanced Hindsight.
http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/thecenter.shtml

It's facinating research and I am sure you'll see applications for it in our everyday lives.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html

You can find his papers here:

http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/papers.shtml

 

[bob2613]

May find some of these an interesting read also. An no I haven't worked by way through all of them

Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception Daniel Goleman

Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind David Livingstone Smith

On Being Certain: Believing You are Right Even When You Are Not Robert Burton

Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth Andrew Newberg, M.D.

Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World Chris Frith

Lying and Deception in Everyday Life Michael Lewis

Gut Feelings - The Intelligence of the Unconscious Gerd Gigerenzer

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcom Gladwell

Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With OthersMarco Iacaboni

How God Changes Your Brain - Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist

Human: The Science on What Makes us Unique Michael Gazzaniga

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind Dr. Gary Marcus.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions Professor Dan Ariely (MIT)

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Truth in Ancient Wisdom Prof Jonathan Haidt

Why People Believe Weird Things: PseudoScience, Superstition and Other Confusions of our Time Michael Shermer

The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday LifeThomas Gilovich

Don't Believe Everything You Think: The Six Basic Mistakes We Make in ThinkingThomas Kida

Religious Thought and Behavior As Byproducts of Brain FunctionPascal Boyer (pdf)

un-Spun - Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation Brooks Jackson

Once and Future Myths - The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives Phil Cousineau

A Mind of It's Own - How the Brain Distorts and Deceives Cordelia Fine

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs Solomon Schimmel

The Fundamentalist Mind: How Polarized Thinking Endangers Us All Stephen Larsen