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Creativity's Dark Side: Dan Ariely on Creativity, Rationalization and Dishonesty

Dan Ariely is professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. He talks about the subject of his most recent book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves














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Dan Ariely is professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. He talks about the subject of his most recent book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves.     

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  1. 1. mmanes 06:48 PM 12/28/12

    Podcasts are not downloading from iTunes. It's been over a week now, and none of the SciAm podacsts I subscribe to will download. I tried re-subscribing and getting individual shows from the iTunes store, but to no avail. Is this going to be fixed anytime soon? This has happened before, but usually fixes itself within a day or two...

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  2. 2. Jeff Axelrod 09:40 AM 12/31/12

    Anyone else notice how Prof. Ariely switches to discussing "blue collar" criminals at the end of the talk? I think we can forgive him for being a presumably non-native English speaker. Thanks for the enlightening talk!

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  3. 3. denisosu in reply to Jeff Axelrod 12:22 PM 1/4/13

    I think he indeed means blue-collar. He's saying that the impact of all the blue-collar crimes (robberies, thefts, ...) pales into insignificance compared to the white-collar crimes that led to the economic mess we're in now - yet our law-enforcement efforts are 99% geared towards stopping blue-collar crime.

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