LSE public lecture
Date: Monday 17 March 2008
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Dan Ariely
Chair: Professor Lawrence Phillips
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why do we repeatedly make the same mistakes when we make our selections? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? The answers, as revealed by behavioural economist Professor Dan Ariely of MIT, will surprise you.
Dan Ariely is author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions, (HarperCollins, £14.99). He is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioural Economics at MIT where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. He is the principal investigator of the Lab's eRationality group and co-director of the Lab's SIMPLICITY consortium. He is interested in issues of rationality, irrationality, decision-making, behavioural economics, and consumer welfare. Projects include examinations of online auction behaviours, personal health monitoring, the effects of different pricing mechanisms, and the development of systems to overcome day-to-day irrationality.
Ariely received a PhD in business administration from Duke University, a PhD and MA in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in psychology from Tel Aviv University.
This event is supported by the LSE Annual Fund.
Podcast and Slides
A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel.
Professor Ariely's lecture slides are also available to download using the link below:
Download slides: Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions (pdf)