I don’t talk about my work at dinner parties. Unless I’m on my third glass of wine and am pretty sure the person listening to me doesn’t have a clear path to the exit. That’s because I’m an academic, ...

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 ...

If we want to prevent dishonesty, especially in the workplace, it's important to learn why people lie and cheat in the first place. According to Dan Ariely, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and ...

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 ...

People crowd the aisles inside Macy’s department store November 25, 2011 in New York after the midnight opening to begin the ‘Black Friday’ shopping weekend. Photo by Stan Homda/AFP/Getty Images) Well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For much of modern capitalism, economists and investors tended to regard labor as an undifferentiated lump. While often necessary for the running of companies, the idea was generally to use as little ...