书籍介绍
这并不是一本教你'变得理性'的手册,而是一面让人 uncomfortable 的镜子。作者用大量亲身实验——包括拿MIT学生当'小白鼠'——把日常中被忽视的非理性行为逐一拆解:免费为何让人失去判断、付款为何带来'痛苦'、激情如何蒙蔽理智。读者最津津乐道的,恰恰是那些'开头好玩、结尾说教'的实验本身;它们像一个个精巧的心理学魔术,让你在'原来我也这样'的会心一笑中,重新审视消费、金钱与关系。它适合对'人为何做出荒谬选择'好奇的人,也适合嫌理论啰嗦、只想看实验的读者。缺点同样明显:观点零散、结论不够深入,部分政策建议甚至显得天真。但作为行为经济学的入门读物,它胜在轻松、诚实、富于自嘲,读来毫无负担。
作者简介
Dr. Dan Ariely, 40, is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a visiting scholar at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and a fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton. Dr. Ariely publishes widely in the leading scholarly journals in economics, psychology, and business. His work has been featured in a variety of media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Scientific American, Science, CNN, NPR, and he was interviewed for ABC 20/20’s segment on Freakonomics. Born in New York City, he lives in Boston, MA and Princeton, NJ.
目录
Introduction How an Injury Led Me to Irrationality and to the Research Described Here
Ch. 1 The Truth about Relativity: Why Everything Is Relative - Even When It Shouldn't Be 1
Ch. 2 The Fallacy of Supply and Demand: Why the Price of Pearls - and Everything Else - Is Up in the Air 23
Ch. 3 The Cost of Zero Cost: Why We Often Pay Too Much When We Pay Nothing 49
Ch. 4 The Cost of Social Norms: Why We Are Happy to Do Things, but Not When We Are Paid to Do Them 67
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