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Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American psychologist and behavioral economist known for his pioneering research in the field of behavioral economics. His work primarily focuses on the irrational aspects of human decision-making and how these irrationalities affect our economic behavior. Ariely's books, 'Predictably Irrational' and 'The Upside of Irrationality', have been widely popular and provide an accessible introduction to his research findings.

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“In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.”

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“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.”

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“One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.”

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“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

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“It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.”

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“Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.”

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