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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

01-Jul-09

Another pickup from Fresh Air and TED. Also, Dan Ariely sometimes does guest appearance on Marketplace.
This book has some similarities to Freakonomics, but it was more about the social experiments that he and his colleagues have done.
They are showing that we are irrational often times and the irrational behaviors are predictable (or statistically consistent). [...]