Dan Ariely
Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics and founding director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight; author of Predictably Irrational.
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Their wordsIf people are predictably irrational, then maybe we also need to help improve their decisions. Maybe, sometimes, we need to limit their options.
↗When Is It OK to Decide for Other People?danariely.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPut these four together — a big decision, hard to reverse, resistant to learning, with deep information asymmetry — and under those conditions I feel much more comfortable saying: let’s not make everyone figure this out alone.
↗When Is It OK to Decide for Other People?danariely.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSmall decision? Reversible? Easy to learn from? Both sides equally informed? Then leave people alone — that is exactly the territory where freedom to make our own mistakes is how we learn, and where paternalism has no business.
↗When Is It OK to Decide for Other People?danariely.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the extensive research on human dishonesty, one clear finding emerges: Passive reminders of ethical conduct, like displaying the Ten Commandments, do not significantly influence behavior.
↗Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compassdanariely.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Displaying a moral code that carries no meaning is like hanging a poster in a foreign language
Their wordsDisplaying a moral code that doesn’t carry meaning is the equivalent of hanging a poster written in a foreign language.
↗Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compassdanariely.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsSpecifically, we should aim to make more mistakes from bold action and fewer mistakes from inaction.
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Their wordsAnd the biggest enemy of progress is fearing mistakes so much that we end up doing nothing.
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Their wordsTo be sure, society can’t function without rules, boundaries, and consequences, but they should be proportionate. We must change the way we judge one another, to allow room for rehabilitation, reconciliation, or recompense.
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