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| Authors@Google: Dan Ariely |
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Professor Dan Ariely visits Google's Mountain
View, CA headquarters to discuss his book
"Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces
That Shape Our Decisions." This event took
place on July 1, 2008, as part of the
Authors@Google series.
In a series of illuminating, often surprising
experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan
Ariely refutes the common assumption that we
behave in fundamentally rational ways.
Blending everyday experience with
groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how
expectations, emotions, social norms, and
other invisible, seemingly illogical forces
skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we
make astonishingly simple mistakes every day,
but we make the same types of mistakes,
Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay,
underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to
understand the profound effects of our
emotions on what we want, and we overvalue
what we already own. Yet these misguided
behaviors are neither random nor senseless.
They're systematic and predictable—making
us predictably irrational.
Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor
of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he
holds a joint appointment between MIT's Media
Laboratory and the Sloan School of
Management. He is also a researcher at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a visiting
professor at Duke University. Ariely wrote
this book while he was a fellow at the
Institute for Advance Study at Princeton.
Tags : Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational the Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions Authors@Google atgoogle illogical behavior |
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Durée : 3362 s |
| How to Make Friends and Manipulate Irrational Voters |
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Are Americans irrational when it comes to
politics -- voting against their own
interests? Or is this phenomenon a function
of the interaction between mind, politics and
society?
George Lakoff is a New York Times bestselling
author and his new book, The Political Mind:
Why You Can't Understand 21st Century
American Politics with an 18th Century Mind,
will be released May 2008.
Tags : Politics Voting Voters Cognitive Science Thought Patterns |
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Affichage : 1030
Durée : 4442 s |
| Irrational Atheism |
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Visit this link and read this excellent essay
on Atheism by Calvinist philosopher and
theologian Dr. Gordon H. Clark:
http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?
id=50
Atheism is not known for logical consistency.
Almost all atheists today are entirely
devoted to empirical epistemology, scientific
method, and the verification principle.
Never mind that the history of philosophy has
demonstrated time and again that all
empirical epistemological attempts have
always ended in complete skepticism, for
these atheists, truth is probability and
logic/evidence is only that which can be
sensed. Not only is certainty cast to the
wind, but logic, the art of necessary
inference, is replaced with courses like
'probability and statistics' and something
called "practical reasoning." This is one
reason our college graduates today do not
have the capacity to detect basic fallacies
(formal and informal) in basic argumentation.
This is also why our society is returning to
the Dark Ages. Any society that can not
argue logically from the Bible alone, as
Martin Luther so clearly demonstrated in the
16th century, is doomed to the superstition
of Medieval Catholicism.
However, some atheists are better trained in
logic than others, and they sometimes make
use of their logic when criticizing rival
atheists.
In this video I quote atheist author David
Ramsay Steele, who clearly points out the
absurd propaganda of today's popular atheists
(such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher
Hitchens). It is always interesting to see
one atheist accuse another of irrationalism.
Atheism is doomed to an irrational
world-view. This is why the Bible correctly
identifies the atheist as a fool: "The fool
hath said in his heart, there is no God"
(Psalm 14).
Tags : Atheism Agnosticism Humanism Skepticism Naturalism Darwinianism Materialism Irrationalism |
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Durée : 156 s |
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