"Humans lie. Humans cheat. We don’t like to think of ourselves as liars and cheaters. Most of us resist getting flagrant there. And yet, we all know how that little fudge factor can creep in. The little cheat. The little lie. And sometimes big ones. Why do we do it? When do we do it? And what restrains us from doing it a whole lot more? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely has been looking deeply into the land of lies. He’s got some new insight on how we try to do right, when we fail to do right. This hour, On Point: Why we lie. Why we cheat."
-Tom Ashbrook
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.
From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle—and inescapable parts of the human condition.
Drawing on original experiments and research, in the vein of Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Survival of the Sickest, Ariely reveals—honestly—what motivates these irrational, but entirely human, behaviors.
Books by Dan Ariely:
Here is a video of Dan Ariely TED Talk asking, Are we in control of our decisions?
Other books:
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