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Overview

Dan Ariely is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences. Their work spans several main fields of study including sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, economics and econometrics, safety research, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research covers diverse topics, prominently featuring the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, medication adherence and compliance, law, economics, and judicial systems, experimental behavioral economics studies, heart failure treatment and management, and cultural differences and values.

Dan Ariely has authored multiple papers published in various respected venues. Recent research outputs include the following:

  • Effect of a Hospital and Postdischarge Quality Improvement Intervention on Clinical Outcomes and Quality of Care for Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (2021, JAMA)
  • Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • It's how you say it: Systematic A/B testing of digital messaging cut hospital no-show rates (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Moral responses to the COVID-19 crisis (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • Developing Workshops to Enhance Hope Among Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer and Oncologists: A Pilot Study (2021, JCO Oncology Practice)

Their work is frequently published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, PLoS ONE, Journal of Cardiac Failure, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dan Ariely include Panagiotis Mitkidis, Nina Mažar, Yuval Feldman, Adam D. DeVore, and Bradi B. Granger.

Best Publications

  • The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance

    Nina Mazar;On Amir;Dan Ariely

  • Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

    Dan Ariely;Anat Bracha;Stephan Meier

  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

    Dan Ariely

  • “Coherent Arbitrariness”: Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences

    Dan Ariely;George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment

    Dan Ariely;Klaus Wertenbroch

  • Wine Online: Search Costs and Competition on Price, Quality, and Distribution

    John G. Lynch;Dan Ariely

  • Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value: fMRI and Behavioral Evidence

    Itzhak Aharon;Nancy Etcoff;Dan Ariely;Christopher F Chabris;Christopher F Chabris

  • The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love

    Michael Irwin Norton;Daniel Mochon;Dan Ariely

  • Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business

    Dan Ariely;Gregory S. Berns

  • Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time:

    Michael I. Norton;Dan Ariely

  • Contagion and Differentiation in Unethical Behavior The Effect of One Bad Apple on the Barrel

    Francesca Gino;Shahar Ayal;Dan Ariely

  • Effort for Payment A Tale of Two Markets

    James E. Heyman;Dan Ariely

  • Large Stakes and Big Mistakes

    Dan Ariely;Uri Gneezy;George Loewenstein;Nina Mazar

  • Controlling the Information Flow: Effects on Consumers' Decision Making and Preferences

    Dan Ariely

  • The heat of the moment: the effect of sexual arousal on sexual decision making

    Dan Ariely;George Loewenstein

  • Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior

    Francesca Gino;Maurice E. Schweitzer;Nicole L. Mead;Dan Ariely

  • The dark side of creativity: Original thinkers can be more dishonest.

    Francesca Gino;Dan Ariely

  • Seeing Sets: Representation by Statistical Properties

    Dan Ariely

  • Matching and Sorting in Online Dating

    Gunter J. Hitsch;Ali Hortaçsu;Dan Ariely

  • Too tired to tell the truth: Self-control resource depletion and dishonesty

    N.L. Mead;R.F. Baumeister;F. Gino;M.E. Schweitzer

  • Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For:

    Baba Shiv;Ziv Carmon;Dan Ariely

  • Sequential Choice in Group Settings: Taking the Road Less Traveled and Less Enjoyed

    Dan Ariely;Jonathan Levav

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino Harvard University
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Paul W. Eastwick
Paul W. Eastwick University of California, Davis
Mara Mather
Mara Mather University of Southern California
Maurice E. Schweitzer
Maurice E. Schweitzer University of Pennsylvania
Thomas S. Wallsten
Thomas S. Wallsten University of Maryland, College Park
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University

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