1. Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American professor and author.
23 Facts About Dan Ariely
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Dan Ariely serves as a James B Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University.
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Dan Ariely is the co-founder of several companies implementing insights from behavioral science.
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Dan Ariely is the author of the three New York Times best selling books Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty.
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Dan Ariely co-produced the 2015 documentary Honesty: The Truth About Lies.
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In 2024, Duke completed a three-year confidential investigation and according to Dan Ariely concluded that "data from the honesty-pledge paper had been falsified but found no evidence that Dan Ariely used fake data knowingly".
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Dan Ariely was born to Yoram and Dafna Ariely in New York City while his father was studying for an MBA at Columbia University.
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Dan Ariely was previously married to Sumedha Gupta in 1998; they have two children.
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Dan Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University but transferred to philosophy and psychology.
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In 2010, Dan Ariely told NPR in an interview that data from Delta Dental, an insurance provider, showed that dentists frequently misdiagnosed cavities when analyzing X-rays, and he speculated that this might happen so that dentists could charge more money.
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Dan Ariely maintained that he was told about the finding by a Delta Dental medical officer.
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In 2021, a 2012 paper written by Francesca Gino, Max H Bazerman, Nina Mazar, Lisa L Shu, and Ariely was discovered to be based on falsified data and was retracted.
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In 2024, Duke completed a three-year confidential investigation, and according to Dan Ariely, concluded that "data from the honesty-pledge paper had been falsified but found no evidence that Dan Ariely used fake data knowingly".
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In July 2021, the journal Psychological Science challenged a 2004 paper by James Heyman and Dan Ariely, "prompted by some uncertainty regarding the values of statistical tests reported in the article and the analytic approach taken to the data".
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Early in his career, Dan Ariely co-founded the behavioral economics consulting firm BEworks, which was acquired by Kyu in 2017.
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In 2012, aspiring to develop a time management app that helps people "use time better" and avoid procrastination, Dan Ariely co-founded Timeful with Yoav Shoham and Jacob Bank.
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In 2014, Dan Ariely co-founded the kitchen appliance company Genie with Ayelet Carasso-Stenberg and Doron Marco.
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In 2015, Dan Ariely invested in Qapital, a personal finance app, and was appointed as its chief behavioral economist.
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Dan Ariely has appeared in several documentary films and television productions.
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In 2015, Dan Ariely appeared in another documentary, Honesty: The Truth About Lies.
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Dan Ariely contributed to Boom Bust Boom, a 2015 documentary about economic crashes.
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Dan Ariely has presented talks at several TED, with titles such as "Our Buggy Moral Code" and "Unraveling the Mysteries of Human Behavior".
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From June 2012 to September 2022, Dan Ariely contributed a weekly advice column titled "Ask Dan Ariely" to The Wall Street Journal.