@@AG-ld6rv I invite you to entertain the idea that there may be people on this platform who are unfamiliar with university level psychology. Thanks for the summary though, I personally prefer Ariely’s delivery!
I heard Dan speak at a User Experience/Interaction conference run by Epic Games. The best line I took away from his talk was "Never underestimate people's desire to do nothing." He's has an amazing mind and is a joy to listen to.
"writing academic papers is not that exciting" - one way to make it more interesting, just make up a bullshit hypothesis, then create the data out of thin air and wait to see how long it takes for someone to catch you - about 14 years of hide and seek seems a good return on investment.
From the current perspective; after having found out that this man is a fraud, what should happen to this person's recordings? Shouldn't there be a warning about the incredible nature of this person? He fabricated data; was he in control of that?
I wish they taught us behavioural economics in my degree. 3 years of uni and 2 years at school, and not a single word about the most interesting part of it!
ABSOLUTEKLY BRILLLIANT! one of the easiest Ted talks to follow while still getting a ton of information thrown at you. Now every time I go into a shop I am more aware about the use of behavioral economics in marketing such as scented marketing, I think they use that stuff in casinnos as well. CRAZYYYY WORLD WE LIVE IN !!!
For those of you who don't know: This guy is a grifter who fabricated all of the data in all of the papers he has published (including his books), was ostracized by his own colleagues for being a sleazebag, then was caught lying about it and then went into hiding.
This should be mandatory viewing in school, together with Pinker’s video on the data of our age. Suddenly, things will seem so less certain than we think they are. And that’s a great place to begin.
What a brilliant mind. A coworker shared his book with me probably 10 years ago. It was the beginning of me thinking differently. It was the beginning of new interests, and perceptions,, that would go on to shape my thinking and interests. It helped me, among many other things, to have realistic expectations of others and myself.
what a state of the art Tedtalk, I have always been interested in behavioural concepts and in business concepts, but the application of both of these is just amazing. Thanks for the inspiration and the good laughter!
I was just going to write that the rubik´s cube example was fake, but decided first to watch it in the slowest speed possible. It´s been 5 hours since I got stuck at 3:44 and my brain is about to melt. Dan is the best seatmate you could have beside you on a day flight from Buenos Aires to Tokyo...
Dan is absolutely gorgeous. Think I have a crush ^_^ It's so refreshing to find an academic who speaks with his audience, even though he's the only one speaking.
Watched this in a PlayPosit assignment for school and had to come here to give it a like. Great vid and raises an interesting point about our self-perceptions.
Ariely, Thaler, Kahneman are absolute titans of BE. Reading their books and applying the principles therein will measurably improve the satisfaction you gain from life
Yikes. From wikipedia - he was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While he was preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body.[12] In his writings, Ariely describes how that experience led to his research on "how to better deliver painful and unavoidable treatments to patients."
Wonderful talk.. there is charm to the way this man speaks: listening to his ideas was time well spent. I have a strong love for learning and for philosophy and so I try to talk about the ideas I've come across through my videos. I need your feedback and thoughts because I am constantly trying to improve and learn more. If you have the chance, that is all that I care to ask of you
Isn't this the guy that fabricated and made up date for a few studies? And was also kicked out of duke (I think) for unethical research practices? Academia is messed up
Many years ago, on my 16th birthday I think, my friend gave me a book, I read few chapters then put it in my shelve. Many years later today, I look at the title, it's Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely! Jesus!
I vaguely recall Sam Harris mentioning on one of his podcasts that he asked a famous researcher on the science of decision-making how that researcher's own research has influenced his own decision making, and the researcher said something along the lines of "Oh, it hasn't", because his research shows that the smarter one is, the better one is at coming up with reasonable justifications for their own decisions.
That's great, now how do we do that? He didn't have much time but I hope he addressed it in his book. He is talking about our subconscious, and the way to make better decisions is by thinking about what is around us. We are led to make so many choices because we are afraid, as he touched on. If we aren't consciously considering something, than our subconscious will always make the decision for us. That decision will always be what 'seems' most comforting, even ignoring it.
I did like his stage presence and the way he moved logically and confidently though the lecture. Not his first time. He ends this with "If we could understand our cognitive limitations in the same way we understand our physical limitations... we could design a better world." Well this ending is a big bowl of (insert food you dislike here).
I am praying for many people again, a lady that went threw drug rehab 5 times, and was Baptized the last time I helped her @ a Rehab Camp is back in the street!
I’m korean student If people can choose many options, people want to have a few option, which is very interesting especially Dan Ariely’s speech is made it easier for me to understand
No. By giving this guy a platform, you legitimize his lies. Let the justice system and the academic community expose him and then people can comment on the results. TED on the other hand, has an obligation to educate the public, not provide a stage for opportunistic scumbags to spread their lies to the gullible public. Despite the overwhelming evidence that this guy is guilty of manufacturing data to support his ideas, there will always be a segment of the people who view this video and who will continue to believe his nonsense and even assert that he is being wrongfully accused and a victim of a conspiracy, which is his laughable contention. Remove the video and you minimize the chance that this happens.
Not to get political here but he just explained a key principle of Conservatism. It opposes the Libertarian view, which assumes all humans are 100% rational, so nothing should be forbidden as people will always make the best decisions if they have full freedom to choose. But at the other end it also opposes the Progressive view, which assumes people are dumb and hence we need a strong controlling central government to tells us what to do, but forgetting that "strong central government" will also be made of humans, as imperfect as the ones who are governed, but with too much power and hence much more potentially destructive as a consequence of its expected mistakes. Conservatism (not to assume every Republican is truly one) is an approach to challenges in which one accepts the learnings society has gathered in the thousands of past generations and we build upon then, incrementally and slowly, not with revolution. It teaches us about balance, about freedom within boundaries of moral respect and coexistence. It accepts authority and some control as long as is local and limited.
A very hard thing to prove in a fast paced society like ours...Who's going to have the authority to lead us to the right decision and maintain balance for how long this would have to take?
DTM > the Libertarian view [...] assumes all humans are 100% rational ...Or maybe it assumes people can hire consultants to help them make rational decisions.
People don't like to make decisions, nor are they very rational at making them in crucial situations (e.g. ibuprofen vs piroxicam vs hip replacement). We don't know our preferences well so we rely on the context that has been set by others (e.g. $59 for online subscription vs $125 for printed subscription vs $125 for online + printed subscription). "If you ever go barhopping, who would you like to take with you?"
So your saying you did not freely choose to write that comment? Just because w can be careless and easily manipulated in our decisions doesn't mean we aren't thinking agents. Just means we've gotten lazy
@@AndreEstrada12345 that describes an animal. We are much more than that. We can be impulsive, yes- but the fact that we are even bandying about these ideas overwhelms any idea of us being mere computers. Shear logic wod say that the writing of a Shakespeare play, for another example, cannot be reacting to stimuli. That would be nonsense
6:45 super important difference. I heard an opinion of someone I respect (can’t remember who atm)) on TH-cam saying the opt out opt in wouldn’t make a change. They need to see this...
I love this guy, it's the feeling that I got by just listening throughtout the talk. I'm seeing lots of comments about him being fraud but he still makes sense. I'll do more personal research to him. Overall, it was an exceptional presentation.
This is just how nature works, I don't know why people keep having talks about this kinda stuff because to me its like air. You breath in air because that's just how this world works. Making a decision is based on the information you are currently receiving AND past experience relating to the current decision being made. No ones giving up free will, they are just being swayed.
Really loved this TED and this guy! Currently reading "Predictably Irrational". He is a great mind and makes me feel smarter LOL he's very good at applying his theories to the everyday, making his research easier to consume
im from the netherlands, and i remember there was quite some national discussion about making the organ donation form opt in or opt out. if memory serves well (memory from 7 years ago when i turned 18), if you did NOT send in the form AT ALL, there was an automatic opt-in. you actually had to submit the form with a choice.
regarding organ donating, my concern is that somebody might kill me if they see me as a donor. Or like when I am in a hospital and the killing would be not so easily provable, like doctor might just do something or do not do what is required and I die. And nobody knows, nobody proves.
what an honor to have followed his course at coursera. :) it wa sin 2013 and i still remember a lot of it. it is sad they deleted the course. i am dutch and i did not. not because i was lazy but because i did not want to. we got the paper. that was the time i thought of your course, if they want something from you they make it easy. if they want something else they make it more difficult. it is an everyday thing.
I listened to this through my Alexa, missed the speaker name, had to come and find the video. One of the most insightful talks about our unconscious biases and the ease in which we might unknowingly be manipulated. Can't believe it took me 10 years to hear this talk. Illuminating!
This is the best TEDx Ive ever seen and Ive watched about 100 or more. It was equally entertaining and informative. Very sophisticated humour with bizarre but easily understood truths about the human mind.
Wow I could not read until ms elliot in 4th grade (I wish I had his understanding) Amazing how he can talk and make science work for people like me because I have never read a book
Correct me if I'm wrong: when he talks about the economist Ads example, he says he called them and eventually the Ads was gone but then he tested it on MIT students.And it happened to be a marketing strategy where you put a bait product in order to give the illussion to customers to buy the product you want them to buy. Now my question is; why should the Economist website remove the Ads while it was indeed a marketing trick ????
@DSBrekus Reminds me of a quote: "The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." --Bertrand Russell
There is a very clear answer to Ariely's closing question: why do we not build our mental world around our weaknesses? Because now, for the most part, our mental world is designed by media controlled by corporations who have studied our weaknesses carefully and exploit them to the tune of trillions of dollars of profit for their shareholders.
+Kelly Bootes This implies absolute knowledge of the weaknesses which are, by this definition, objective. But reality as a fabric of being, is entirely subjective. So the choice I guess is entirely up to me or you.
What you're missing is that we do build our world around our weaknesses. The problem is that "building" requires strength, which makes it a tautological matter concerning your own inability to fix your own inabilities. Your weakness is your weakness, therefore these matters will be relegated to _other builders_ and _other controllers_ to take care of. If you are not able to fix your own problems (your own weaknesses), the fixing of these problems are done by others. Do you hunt your meat? Or do you get it with almost no hassle at a grocery store? Do you raise your own crops? Do you heal your own maladies, cure your own diseases? Do you build your own vehicles? Sew your own clothes? Build your own house? Your inability on performing all of those functions make you "weak" in all of those areas. The _psychological dependence_ people have on other is mainly a perception that their physical existence and well being depend on THINGS and actions that other people are able to provide. It is not really a matter of "mentality", of pure "_ mind control_" where people are being forced to do things they really don't want and that are really maleficent to them. The _"evil oppression"_ and _parasitic control_ ideas come mostly from a narrower focus, higher intensity attention, on the negative aspects of the whole situation. It quite often can be a total ignorance on the _own takings_ a person has from the deal. That is not to say there isn't really parasitic and heavily unjust deals. There are people who indeed end up FORCED to give away control, because "the weakness" was inflicted on the person, in a similar way a very healthy and independent person may find himself surrounded by a lynch mob and forced to comply or risk death. The problem is, a bunch of weak people brought together by the power of a single binding objective, may be capable of destroying a smaller group of healthy strong individuals. Which is actually a premise that all these _zombie_ epidemya movies are developed upon.
Who is the "I" who decides? Who is the 'me'? Is body-identification a mis-identification? What if there were no-one inside to which anything pertains? Only spacious awareness. Spacious awareness witnessing the ever-unfolding drama of life, yet ever free from the drama itself.
I do not share this specific misgiving, but I empathize. I recommend that you watch "David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust" and brainstorm ways of getting over your aversion to his appearance, because what he says is truly remarkable.
The information, the delivery; I think he is absolutely brilliant!
Really
i dont care
Ruka Pacyfistka -Will that be Republican or republican lite?
Simply brilliant!
Turned out he is a total scam himself lol the irony. The ethnic researcher who got busted and this honesty researcher lol
This is one of the easiest Ted talks to follow while still getting a ton of information thrown at you. I really enjoyed this speaker!
@@AG-ld6rv just cause you wrote a summary doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of information
@@AG-ld6rv I invite you to entertain the idea that there may be people on this platform who are unfamiliar with university level psychology. Thanks for the summary though, I personally prefer Ariely’s delivery!
Try Lex Fridman podcasts. It's like a dinner table Ted talk format.
Unfortunately, now we have no idea which of his studies are real and which are fake.
@@sunway1374 if you look at the guy's history, the questionable methods that were revealed started pretty early in his "career"
I heard Dan speak at a User Experience/Interaction conference run by Epic Games. The best line I took away from his talk was "Never underestimate people's desire to do nothing." He's has an amazing mind and is a joy to listen to.
haha that's awesome
And a fraud.
One of the most entertaining TED talks I've had the pleasure of watching on the topic of human cognition.
This didnt age well.
Yep, he’s an entertainer.
If only he wasn't a lying scumbag.
He is a lying cheat
"writing academic papers is not that exciting" - one way to make it more interesting, just make up a bullshit hypothesis, then create the data out of thin air and wait to see how long it takes for someone to catch you - about 14 years of hide and seek seems a good return on investment.
From the current perspective; after having found out that this man is a fraud, what should happen to this person's recordings? Shouldn't there be a warning about the incredible nature of this person?
He fabricated data; was he in control of that?
I've seen other comments on this but I couldn't find any articles about this... What data did he fabricate?
I wish they taught us behavioural economics in my degree. 3 years of uni and 2 years at school, and not a single word about the most interesting part of it!
@Sina Madani What did you find was the most interesting part?
@@godgod156 they didn't say it directly but they are implying that behavioural economics was their favourite part.
Well even I'm doing my masters ,yet I haven't come across Behavioural Economics.Wish to study in depth about it .
Come to University of Kassel, Germany for the masters in economic behavior and governance program. You'd love it
Hey, done with your course? What are you doing now? @@JoshuaAdu
" We are predictable in a consistent way, and we can do nothing about it. " brilliant. Should be the Ars Poetica of humanity.
"Our intuition is fooling us in a repeatable, predictable, consistent way, And there is almost nothing we can do about it"
Dan Ariely
is an exceptional speaker, please engage in his other videos as well. Kudos Mr. Dan, job well done.
And he is a lying cheat
ABSOLUTEKLY BRILLLIANT! one of the easiest Ted talks to follow while still getting a ton of information thrown at you. Now every time I go into a shop I am more aware about the use of behavioral economics in marketing such as scented marketing, I think they use that stuff in casinnos as well. CRAZYYYY WORLD WE LIVE IN !!!
I wonder if TED will take this down now given the doubts around his research being valid.
Given how many people are calling him out for being a fraud in the comments now, I am surprised they haven't.
Elizabeth Holmes' Ted Talk is still online so I don't think so.
For those of you who don't know: This guy is a grifter who fabricated all of the data in all of the papers he has published (including his books), was ostracized by his own colleagues for being a sleazebag, then was caught lying about it and then went into hiding.
This should be mandatory viewing in school, together with Pinker’s video on the data of our age. Suddenly, things will seem so less certain than we think they are. And that’s a great place to begin.
"The Upside of Irrationality" totally changed my view on a whole lot of things. I really recommend it.
What a brilliant mind. A coworker shared his book with me probably 10 years ago. It was the beginning of me thinking differently. It was the beginning of new interests, and perceptions,, that would go on to shape my thinking and interests. It helped me, among many other things, to have realistic expectations of others and myself.
He's a fraud.
Not that many TED speakers get a standing ovation.
Faking research data really helps.
I love this talk so much, I share it every couple of months on my facebook page in the hopes everyone will watch it.
what a state of the art Tedtalk, I have always been interested in behavioural concepts and in business concepts, but the application of both of these is just amazing. Thanks for the inspiration and the good laughter!
I was just going to write that the rubik´s cube example was fake, but decided first to watch it in the slowest speed possible. It´s been 5 hours since I got stuck at 3:44 and my brain is about to melt. Dan is the best seatmate you could have beside you on a day flight from Buenos Aires to Tokyo...
Dan is absolutely gorgeous. Think I have a crush ^_^ It's so refreshing to find an academic who speaks with his audience, even though he's the only one speaking.
Watched this in a PlayPosit assignment for school and had to come here to give it a like. Great vid and raises an interesting point about our self-perceptions.
Ariely is fantastic to listen to! Love an intelligent being like that! I need to buy his book.
Did you waste your money?
I hope it was not wasted on this lying cheat
Ariely, Thaler, Kahneman are absolute titans of BE.
Reading their books and applying the principles therein will measurably improve the satisfaction you gain from life
I kind of wish I knew this guy personally. He seems like the type of person you could have mind-blowing conversations with.
This guy is a weird combo of Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone
and two face
(sorry dan but its too good)
@@jonnyspace50 I was just about to say Freddie Krueger.
Loved the talk, by the way.
Yikes. From wikipedia - he was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While he was preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body.[12] In his writings, Ariely describes how that experience led to his research on "how to better deliver painful and unavoidable treatments to patients."
GUYS ITS JAVIER BARDEM IM SURE
Wonderful talk.. there is charm to the way this man speaks: listening to his ideas was time well spent.
I have a strong love for learning and for philosophy and so I try to talk about the ideas I've come across through my videos. I need your feedback and thoughts because I am constantly trying to improve and learn more. If you have the chance, that is all that I care to ask of you
ofSix dope Videos homie.
"Not yours of course other people 's " Starts off with the Superman illusion ! Brilliant !
This was a briliantly presented talk... :)
Moral of the story. Most are being manipulated. Fast forward 15yrs. What are my options?
I love Ted Talks that give a little insight on how people behave. This one is definitely in my Top 10!
which are the other 9? I ì'm very interested to look all them!
Yes, please share your top list
Isn't this the guy that fabricated and made up date for a few studies? And was also kicked out of duke (I think) for unethical research practices? Academia is messed up
Kicked out of MIT
Many years ago, on my 16th birthday I think, my friend gave me a book, I read few chapters then put it in my shelve. Many years later today, I look at the title, it's Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely! Jesus!
Brilliant! Proves that however smart you are, you can still be fooled !
@Abhishek Muralidhara Love be with you also.
I vaguely recall Sam Harris mentioning on one of his podcasts that he asked a famous researcher on the science of decision-making how that researcher's own research has influenced his own decision making, and the researcher said something along the lines of "Oh, it hasn't", because his research shows that the smarter one is, the better one is at coming up with reasonable justifications for their own decisions.
I love how the older messages predating the discovery of his fraud are full of awe and wonder. Think he was telling them what they wanted to hear?
One of the few both witty and informative.
I knew now why usually my friend take me with them to parties
That's great, now how do we do that?
He didn't have much time but I hope he addressed it in his book.
He is talking about our subconscious, and the way to make better decisions is by thinking about what is around us. We are led to make so many choices because we are afraid, as he touched on.
If we aren't consciously considering something, than our subconscious will always make the decision for us. That decision will always be what 'seems' most comforting, even ignoring it.
👏👏
I did like his stage presence and the way he moved logically and confidently though the lecture. Not his first time.
He ends this with "If we could understand our cognitive limitations in the same way we understand our physical limitations... we could design a better world."
Well this ending is a big bowl of (insert food you dislike here).
It appears self-evident,would you expound the tenets that make the assertion a big bowl of blood pudding?
I am praying for many people again, a lady that went threw drug rehab 5 times, and was Baptized the last time I helped her @ a Rehab Camp is back in the street!
I love the insights this work gives us. How easily we are manipulated...and manipulate others. Advertising is well aware already.
One of the most interesting TED talks yet.
wow! he is so good. He threw information that you couldn't even raise a question either have millions questions in your head.
I’m korean student
If people can choose many
options, people want to have a few option, which is very interesting
especially Dan Ariely’s speech is made it easier for me to understand
He's a fraud, you Koreans are too naive.
This is by far the best TED video i've ever watched
17 minutes went pass like a wind
Oh my gosh. That Economist trick gets me ALL the time!
Everyone, stop asking for this video to be taken down.
We need to see the liars for what they are.
No. By giving this guy a platform, you legitimize his lies. Let the justice system and the academic community expose him and then people can comment on the results. TED on the other hand, has an obligation to educate the public, not provide a stage for opportunistic scumbags to spread their lies to the gullible public. Despite the overwhelming evidence that this guy is guilty of manufacturing data to support his ideas, there will always be a segment of the people who view this video and who will continue to believe his nonsense and even assert that he is being wrongfully accused and a victim of a conspiracy, which is his laughable contention. Remove the video and you minimize the chance that this happens.
Is this video:
1: interesting
2: iteresting
3: brilliant
Eye-opening speech with a good sense of humour :)
Not to get political here but he just explained a key principle of Conservatism. It opposes the Libertarian view, which assumes all humans are 100% rational, so nothing should be forbidden as people will always make the best decisions if they have full freedom to choose. But at the other end it also opposes the Progressive view, which assumes people are dumb and hence we need a strong controlling central government to tells us what to do, but forgetting that "strong central government" will also be made of humans, as imperfect as the ones who are governed, but with too much power and hence much more potentially destructive as a consequence of its expected mistakes. Conservatism (not to assume every Republican is truly one) is an approach to challenges in which one accepts the learnings society has gathered in the thousands of past generations and we build upon then, incrementally and slowly, not with revolution. It teaches us about balance, about freedom within boundaries of moral respect and coexistence. It accepts authority and some control as long as is local and limited.
Great commend
A very hard thing to prove in a fast paced society like ours...Who's going to have the authority to lead us to the right decision and maintain balance for how long this would have to take?
DTM
> the Libertarian view [...] assumes all humans are 100% rational
...Or maybe it assumes people can hire consultants to help them make rational decisions.
He strongly disagrees in his book. Ariely is strongly left wing because of his research.
People don't like to make decisions, nor are they very rational at making them in crucial situations (e.g. ibuprofen vs piroxicam vs hip replacement).
We don't know our preferences well so we rely on the context that has been set by others (e.g. $59 for online subscription vs $125 for printed subscription vs $125 for online + printed subscription).
"If you ever go barhopping, who would you like to take with you?"
This didn’t age well…
@ Dan Ariely you are a brilliant and caring person. I love your discussions.
A behavioural economic talk that reinforces my opinion that we dont have free-will even though this talk had pretty much nothing to do with free will.
who or what caused you to say that?
Haha man that’s not an opinion just fact.
So your saying you did not freely choose to write that comment? Just because w can be careless and easily manipulated in our decisions doesn't mean we aren't thinking agents. Just means we've gotten lazy
UseYour Mind We don’t make our decisions, our brain makes our decisions for us and we don’t control our brain, it just reacts to stimuli.
@@AndreEstrada12345 that describes an animal. We are much more than that. We can be impulsive, yes- but the fact that we are even bandying about these ideas overwhelms any idea of us being mere computers. Shear logic wod say that the writing of a Shakespeare play, for another example, cannot be reacting to stimuli. That would be nonsense
I watched a slightly worse version of this talk before. Now I think this is the best TED talk ever!
Is this the guy who falsified his study data?
One of the guys yesh
Yup
@@Speederzzzsadly there are so many.
What..... When😢
Yes. Several times over.
Anyone who does polls has known this for years - how you ask the question is a huge factor in what response you get
I cant beleive it took me 9 years to find this (2018)
I never thought I'd ever say thanks to autoplay
Omg Same lolllll it's freaking brilliant!
Took me 10 years to find this video.
you're luckier than me then lol
10 years here
This is the kinda thing I'm gonna have to come back and watch again...think on it quite a bit.
Come back and watch, 7 sevens have gone by!
at least 10% of these are that good, thats better then any other subscription,
The line is measuring the hypotenuse of half the table in one, and length in the other @ 3:00...
6:45 super important difference. I heard an opinion of someone I respect (can’t remember who atm)) on TH-cam saying the opt out opt in wouldn’t make a change. They need to see this...
I am a high school student from Korea, and I found your lecture informative. If I have time, I would like to watch your videos related to ChatGPT.
He's a fraud, you Koreans are too naive.
We don't know our preferences well and thus are susceptible, very good point.
I love this guy, it's the feeling that I got by just listening throughtout the talk. I'm seeing lots of comments about him being fraud but he still makes sense. I'll do more personal research to him. Overall, it was an exceptional presentation.
Been passing this around for a few years now. One of the best TED talks todate
This is just how nature works, I don't know why people keep having talks about this kinda stuff because to me its like air. You breath in air because that's just how this world works. Making a decision is based on the information you are currently receiving AND past experience relating to the current decision being made. No ones giving up free will, they are just being swayed.
The subscription example was on point. Imma start using it
Once you learn we are not really in charge of most our decissions, marketing starts to look wrong and evil.
yep, not only marketing, but the whole environment we live in. things we see, hear and learn influence us deeply
Really loved this TED and this guy! Currently reading "Predictably Irrational". He is a great mind and makes me feel smarter LOL he's very good at applying his theories to the everyday, making his research easier to consume
One of my favorite ted talks. Really fascinating implications on form design.
This is one of the best TED videos I have seen.
im from the netherlands, and i remember there was quite some national discussion about making the organ donation form opt in or opt out. if memory serves well (memory from 7 years ago when i turned 18), if you did NOT send in the form AT ALL, there was an automatic opt-in. you actually had to submit the form with a choice.
regarding organ donating, my concern is that somebody might kill me if they see me as a donor. Or like when I am in a hospital and the killing would be not so easily provable, like doctor might just do something or do not do what is required and I die. And nobody knows, nobody proves.
what an honor to have followed his course at coursera. :) it wa sin 2013 and i still remember a lot of it. it is sad they deleted the course. i am dutch and i did not. not because i was lazy but because i did not want to. we got the paper. that was the time i thought of your course, if they want something from you they make it easy. if they want something else they make it more difficult. it is an everyday thing.
Fastest 17 minutes of my life.
What horrible injury has happened to this man.Great to see it has not affected him , human spirit
Absolutely amazing. I wish they were all this good.
In summary, it's human nature to avoid decisions and decisions are easier made relative to local alternatives.
We should be humbler about our physical and cognitive limitations..............indeed. Important lesson.
This presentation makes so much sense after reading "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell :)
I was just reading that too wow
D. Ariely makes such a good point about human nature.
I am really saddened by what became of him. Take his whole body of work with a grain of salt now.
I listened to this through my Alexa, missed the speaker name, had to come and find the video. One of the most insightful talks about our unconscious biases and the ease in which we might unknowingly be manipulated. Can't believe it took me 10 years to hear this talk. Illuminating!
Fantastic talk. Dan Ariely is brilliant.
I really like watching this guy. I always learn something useful about myself.
This is the best TEDx Ive ever seen and Ive watched about 100 or more. It was equally entertaining and informative. Very sophisticated humour with bizarre but easily understood truths about the human mind.
Wow
I could not read until ms elliot in 4th grade (I wish I had his understanding)
Amazing how he can talk and make science work for people like me because I have never read a book
Is this video:
1: Correct
2: OK
3: Correct
+Phillip Ohren i'll choose the "Correct" one then
Why not both?
redundant
All of the Above? None of the Above?
That's how it was explained. There was supposed to be an inferior version of the same thing.
Is this video:
1. Correct
2. Ok
3. Corect
Correct me if I'm wrong: when he talks about the economist Ads example, he says he called them and eventually the Ads was gone but then he tested it on MIT students.And it happened to be a marketing strategy where you put a bait product in order to give the illussion to customers to buy the product you want them to buy. Now my question is; why should the Economist website remove the Ads while it was indeed a marketing trick ????
@DSBrekus
Reminds me of a quote: "The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." --Bertrand Russell
this guy has such good delivery with his jokes... very interesting; always been interested in this topic
There is a very clear answer to Ariely's closing question: why do we not build our mental world around our weaknesses? Because now, for the most part, our mental world is designed by media controlled by corporations who have studied our weaknesses carefully and exploit them to the tune of trillions of dollars of profit for their shareholders.
+Kelly Bootes This implies absolute knowledge of the weaknesses which are, by this definition, objective. But reality as a fabric of being, is entirely subjective. So the choice I guess is entirely up to me or you.
What you're missing is that we do build our world around our weaknesses. The problem is that "building" requires strength, which makes it a tautological matter concerning your own inability to fix your own inabilities. Your weakness is your weakness, therefore these matters will be relegated to _other builders_ and _other controllers_ to take care of. If you are not able to fix your own problems (your own weaknesses), the fixing of these problems are done by others. Do you hunt your meat? Or do you get it with almost no hassle at a grocery store? Do you raise your own crops? Do you heal your own maladies, cure your own diseases? Do you build your own vehicles? Sew your own clothes? Build your own house? Your inability on performing all of those functions make you "weak" in all of those areas. The _psychological dependence_ people have on other is mainly a perception that their physical existence and well being depend on THINGS and actions that other people are able to provide. It is not really a matter of "mentality", of pure "_ mind control_" where people are being forced to do things they really don't want and that are really maleficent to them. The _"evil oppression"_ and _parasitic control_ ideas come mostly from a narrower focus, higher intensity attention, on the negative aspects of the whole situation. It quite often can be a total ignorance on the _own takings_ a person has from the deal. That is not to say there isn't really parasitic and heavily unjust deals. There are people who indeed end up FORCED to give away control, because "the weakness" was inflicted on the person, in a similar way a very healthy and independent person may find himself surrounded by a lynch mob and forced to comply or risk death. The problem is, a bunch of weak people brought together by the power of a single binding objective, may be capable of destroying a smaller group of healthy strong individuals. Which is actually a premise that all these _zombie_ epidemya movies are developed upon.
Oh yes. Keep watching TH-cam videos or go and do what's really important.
Why would they do that ?
I like the way Dan thinks about certain things and present them, specially the economic times subscription example.
Who is the "I" who decides? Who is the 'me'? Is body-identification a mis-identification? What if there were no-one inside to which anything pertains? Only spacious awareness. Spacious awareness witnessing the ever-unfolding drama of life, yet ever free from the drama itself.
Great speech on how we are influenced to decide. Good for advertising professionals.
thank you ted for sharing so many great speakers and talks
I am doing everything in my power to stop myself from mistakes like that.
And at the end of the day i see that i failed ones more.
I do not share this specific misgiving, but I empathize. I recommend that you watch "David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust" and brainstorm ways of getting over your aversion to his appearance, because what he says is truly remarkable.
His accent is great!
Dan Ariely is absolutely charming.
If everybody in the world read his book, the world would be a lot wiser.
Then again we would probably would not want that, imagine the implications of such situation...