Dan Ariely

and also helps people avoid some troubles. White lie will bring more damage. Just like Stephanie Ericsson in her article The Ways We Lie describes, “ The white lie assumes that the truth will cause more damage than a simple, harmless untruth.” Dan Ariely in Ted Talk shared his own experience that after he severely burned his nurse with a bandage to ease his pain, and told him every bandage was changed would ease his pain. After he was discharged, he did an experiment about painful. Facts have…

Throughout all of history, there has not been a month, day, minute, in which someone wasn’t making a decision. From choosing what to wear in the morning to what college to attend, life is full of making choices that could change everything. Therefore, it is up to people to make their own decisions, to choose what they want, right? It’s a part of growing up for someone to make their own choices, to become a responsible adult. This being said, there are times when people are pushed to do things…

The United States is often called the land of opportunity. This nickname has, for many years, attracted foreign immigrants from around the world to move to America. This, however, has sparked an increase in xenophobia in the American population as they believe that these immigrants will steal their jobs away from them. However, immigrants don’t steal their jobs; instead they help create them. Immigrants use productivity and human capital to cause economic growth which is beneficial to our nation…

Stress can be caused by a vast array of things, including guilt. As the conductor, Abigail, starts the lying trend as the others follow in her footsteps. But what drives Abigail to continuously do this and feel no guilt or stress? As Dan Ariely of the Association for Psychological Science in 2017 says, “Because of the commonality and danger of the first step, what is the difference between people who commit crimes and those who don’t? Is it just missed opportunity? We find that it’s all…

Many Americans do not think that wealth distribution in America is as bad as it really is. In a study done in 2005 by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely, they found that American people thought the top 20% of Americans owned roughly 57% of the nation’s wealth when in actuality the top 20% of Americans own roughly 85% of the nation’s wealth (Building a Better America). This leaves roughly 15% of the nation’s for the rest of Americans to fight over. Due to the very little wealth left for the rest of…