MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ariely'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:36 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181919&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F09%2F01%2Fthe-situation-of-the-inequality-getting-inequalitier%2F From PBSNewsHour: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181919 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:34:21 +0100 5181919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028469&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F26415427%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EApologies-Really-DO-Work.htm Have you ever annoyed a potential customer, or made her angry? Before you decide to ignore the faux pas and press forward with the pitch, or write her off and move on to greener pastures, try this simple technique: say, “I’m sorry.” That’s likely instinctive behavior for many of us, but at times it may [...] CommentsAgree, Wes. If I'm rude once and immediately acknowledge it ... by Roger Dooleyon Page's topic, There was similar discussion in this topic ... by Wes ManPlus 7 more...Related StoriesThe Upside of Irrationality by Dan ArielyNeuromarketing Explains Weiner’s PickleYour Brain’s Twitter Limit: 150 Real Friends (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028469 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:54:35 +0100 5028469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028470&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F26392869%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EThe-Upside-of-Irrationality-by-Dan-Ariely.htm Nobody is doing more to add to our knowledge of the irrational side of human behavior than Dan Ariely. Not only does he conduct experiments that are elegant in their simplicity, but he writes about his work and that of other researchers in a highly acccessible way. Upside is the successor to the bestselling Predictably Irrational, and it takes to new topics, ranging from CEO pay to speed dating. Comments[...] The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely describes an ... by Apologies Really DO Work | Neuromarketing[...] Dooley (Neuroscience Marketing) writes about Dan Ariely ... by Can a Crappy Video Effect Your Decision Making? | Will Video for FoodThanks, nice review. I loved Predictably Irrational. I think ... by Luke FosterRelated StoriesApologies Really DO WorkSecrets of th... Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028470 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:52:51 +0100 5028470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921524&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F26112553%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7ENeuromarketing-Explains-Weiners-Pickle.htm The latest news on the lewd messaging scandal involving Congressman Anthony Weiner (Democrat, NY) was that he called former President Bill Clinton (who officiated at Weiner’s wedding) to apologize for his behavior. No transcript of the conversation was released, but it must have been an interesting chat. Did the ex-pres say something like, “Dude, I [...] CommentsHa! Well, you found your excuse. Jennifer (Verilliance) ... by Jennifer (Verilliance)Actually, I was just looking for an excuse to use ... by Roger DooleyPlus 2 more...Related StoriesCloser to the Buy Button?Your Brain’s Twitter Limit: 150 Real FriendsVivid Print Ads Change Your Memory (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921524 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:01:07 +0100 4921524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747925&cid=t_170359_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FSoJ56Y-b3J0%2F When I was a kid and my dad would tell me to do something I didn’t particularly want to do like tidy my bedroom, I’d usually whine: “But why do I have to do it now when I’m busy pushing superglue into my sisters toothpaste tube?” My dad being the brilliant philosopher and debater that he was, would almost always respond by saying: “Because I said so” “Oh well” I’d think, “Why didn’t he say that in the first place?” and with that I’d happily put down the glue and start to clear the room up. It sounds completely ridiculous, doesn’t it? Responding, “because I said so” isn’t really a compelling argument. After all, I knew he’d said so there was no need to tell me that, other than it worked more often that not. Fast forward a few decades and I’m readi... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747925 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:44:25 +0100 4747925 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3965501&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F20639460%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EWear-a-Fake-Rolex-Turn-Into-OJ.htm You can find fake designer and luxury products just about anywhere these days, and most people consider owning one a harmless transgression. After all, if you were never going to pay $12,000 for a real Rolex, who is really hurt if you wear a fake that cost you $30? Rolex didn’t really lose [...] CommentsBut your brain doesn't always know it knows! Good point, ... by Roger DooleyThe brain has an error detection mechanism that registers when ... by David Krueger MD (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3965501 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:27:32 +0100 3965501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3942846&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F19002543%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EMistakes-Were-Made-but-not-by-me.htm The imperfection of our human brains has been a frequent topic of books lately, most notably Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. Mistakes were made goes into considerable depth on one key failing, cognitive dissonance. The authors call cognitive dissonance the “engine of self-justification” and attribute many examples of irrational behavior to our attempts to resolve it. Comments[...] grandfather smoked until he was 95 and was always ... by Doctor Disruption » The Engine of Self Justification (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3942846 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:53:23 +0100 3942846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3017104&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F22%2Fthe-situation-of-cheating%2F Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, in the following video, describes one of his fascinating studies on the situation of cheating. * * * * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Interior Situation of Honesty (and Dishonesty),” “The Situation of Lying,” “The Facial Obviousness of Lying,” “Cheating Doesn’t Pay . . . So Why So Much of it?,” “Dan Ariely, a Situationist,” “Dan Ariely on Cheating,”and “Unclean Hands.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3017104 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:01:15 +0100 3017104 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727164&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F24%2Fis-there-an-objective-reality-outside-of-our-beliefs-%25e2%2580%2594-big-think%2F The good folks at Big Think interviewed behavioral economist Dan Ariely and asked him about the the nature of objective reality. Among other things, Ariely had this to say: It turns out that if a physician comes to you and injects you with whatever – saline water – your body expects pain relief.  And your body secretes substances that are very much like morphine.  So it doesn’t matter what you get from the injection.  You actually get pain relief from your own body as a reaction to that.  Now you can’t just close your eyes and say, “Please can I have some pain killers.”  That doesn’t work.  But when a physician injects you with anything – even saline water – you get the pain relief that is actually a substance you can’t buy over the counter.  It’s like morphine... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727164 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:01:08 +0100 2727164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452657&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F05%2Fdan-ariely-as-a-situationist%2F In the following TED Talk video, Dan Ariely, Professor of Economics at Duke University, behavioral economist, and the author of Predictably Irrational, offers some now-standard but still interesting illustrations of how situation influences our perception and choices. * * * * * * To read (or watch) some related Situationist posts, see “Dan Ariely on Cheating,” “Free To Not Choose,” “Why You Bought That,” “Just Choose It,” “Neuroscience and Illusion,” “Brain Magic,” “Magic is in the Mind,” and “The Situation of Illusion,” “Irrelevant Third Options in Presidential Campaigns.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452657 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:01:57 +0100 2452657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2287163&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F21%2Fdan-ariely-on-cheating%2F From TED: “Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it’s OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we’re predictably irrational — and can be influenced in ways we can’t grasp.” * * * To read a related Situationist post, see “Predictably Irrational.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2287163 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:01:19 +0100 2287163 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1798602&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-markets-personality-dispositionalizing-situational-characters%2F Joel Garreau and Shankar Vedantam have a nice article, “Dealing with Scary Mr. Market,” in Tuesday’s Washington Post about the human tendency to see human tendencies in non-humans.  The inclination to anthropomorphize is, in our view, better understood as another example of the inclination to dispositionalize — a misleading bias even when directed at the human animal. Here are some excerpts from the article. * * * A rough beast prowled yesterday. If you read the business press, the market woke up with “jitters” after playing “a game of chicken.” It wound up suffering from “dizziness,” recoiling from a “campfire” possibly turning into a “forest fire,” or a destructive “tsunami.” Really? The mar... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1798602 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:01:23 +0100 1798602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1701537&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2Fdenial%2F Last November, Benedict Carey of the New York Times penned an intriguing piece on the psychology of denial. As discussed by Carey, recent research suggests that denial helps form and cultivate close relationships, including those between spouses and siblings. We excerpt his piece below. * * * Everyone is in denial about something; just try denying it and watch friends make a list. For Freud, denial was a defense against external realities that threaten the ego, and many psychologists today would argue that it can be a protective defense in the face of unbearable news, like a cancer diagnosis. * * * [R]ecent studies from fields as diverse as psychology and anthropology suggest that the ability to look the other way, while potentially destructive, is also critically important to forming and ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1701537 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:16:32 +0100 1701537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1616618&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F12%2Ffreedom-to-not-choose%2F In February, John Tierney wrote a great column in February for the New York Times about Dan Ariely’s new book, Predictably Irrational. We already posted about Ariely’s book last week (see here). In this post, we simply wanted to highlight Tierney’s excellent summary of some of Ariely’s experiments. * * * In a series of experiments, hundreds of students could not bear to let their options vanish . . . . * * * They played a computer game that paid real cash to look for money behind three doors on the screen. . . . After they opened a door by clicking on it, each subsequent click earned a little money, with the sum varying each time. As each player went through the 100 allotted clicks, he could switch rooms to search for higher payoffs, but each switch used up a clic... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1616618 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:32 +0100 1616618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1606315&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.files.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fabc-dan-ariely-interview.mp3 We presented participants with two portraits – Mike and John – and asked them to choose whom they’d rather date. For half the participants we distorted the picture of Mike and added it to the set, so they had John, Mike and an ugly version of Mike to choose from. For the other half of the students, we distorted John, so they had Mike, John and an ugly John. When the ugly version of Mike was presented, the attractive version of Mike became the most desirable date. And when the ugly version of John was presented, John’s attractive version became the most desirable. It is very hard for us to evaluate things in absolute terms. So, we evaluate products and people in relative terms, which makes us vulnerable to this kind of trap, called the asymmetric dominance effect. Spending p... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1606315 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:07:00 +0100 1606315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1603016&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F09%2Fmoney-can-change-your-behavior-toward-others%2F Pages: 1 2 Next »     Single Page In 2004, researchers James Heyman and Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) devised a set of deceptively simple experiments that illustrated that the moment money enters a social relationship, it can change the very nature of our expectations and the relationship. In the first experiment, they asked three different groups to perform a simple but menial task – drag as many circles as you can across a computer screen in 5 minutes. The groups only differed in what they would get for completing this task: $5, $0.50 or nothing. For the group that got nothing, the task was framed not as a task per se, but as a ‘favor’ to help out the researchers. If you read the book, you already know that the group that performed ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1603016 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:00:39 +0100 1603016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1401588&cid=t_170359_122_f&fid=36506&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainSciencePodcastBlog%2F%7E3%2F278304014%2F Discussion Forum (Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell) the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1401588 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:52:13 +0100 1401588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1341216&cid=t_170359_122_f&fid=36506&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainSciencePodcastBlog%2F%7E3%2F261695396%2F Most of you know that I am a fan of the All in the Mind podcast from Australian radio. I want to recommend the two most recent episodes: The March 22 Episode is actually  hosted by Volkart Wildermuth, from Germany. He interviews several of the world’s leading primate researchers. You will learn some of the recent discoveries about primate intelligence and culture, and also hear an excellent discussion of what makes humans different. Go to the website not just to hear the show, but to get a transcript and to see the extensive links. The March 29 Episode is a fascinating interview with Dan Ariely from MIT who is the author the new bestseller Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, which describes his experiments in what is called behavioral economics. His w... the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1341216 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:27:16 +0100 1341216 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1241879&cid=t_170359_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F19%2Fwhy-you-cant-just-say-no-in-the-heat-of-the-moment%2F A lot of parents believe that if they teach their kids some common sense around sexuality, it’ll sink in and they won’t make bad decisions. They, of course, would be wrong. “Just say no” doesn’t work in the heat of the moment — it only works if the person walks away from the possibility of the heat of the moment long before they can be drawn in. Why can’t teens (and even most adults) make good decisions surrounding sexuality and sexual situations when they’re occurring? It appears that humans generally make poorer decisions when under the influence of strong emotions. And what stronger emotion do most of experience outside of sexual arousal? In an experiment conducted in 2006 on male college students, researchers Dan Ariely and his coll... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1241879 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:59:56 +0100 1241879