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What Dan Ariely thinks about agency

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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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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Dan Ariely has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingPaternalism feels more acceptable for big, hard-to-reverse decisions that resist learning and carry deep information gaps

    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

  3. Our readingSmall, reversible, learnable decisions between equally informed sides should be left to people, with no paternalism

    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