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sarkynir's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting break down of human behavior in certain circumstances, such as, when given the chance to cheat, placebo effects, anchoring, and more.
montigneyrules's review against another edition
3.0
#readingchallenge2021 (my extra books!)
I became intrigued by this book, when a fellow book club member spent time describing the more fascinating experiments within, sparking a great internal ‘bc’ conversation on human nature. The discussion became something I wanted to learn more about, so I decide to read this-learning more on how certain behaviors are impacted by social norms.
The author spent a great deal of time studying how we make decisions, engaging in various opportunities to apply his predictions. Overall, the experiments were interesting, though they didn’t provide any ground-breaking insight I wasn’t already aware of as a barrier (i.e money, brand names, placebo effects, and time limits). And a few studies were so repetitive of each other the reliability became iffy (i.e he began to influence and impact his subject matter and results too much because of controls within).
Overall, a decent quick read, on behavioral economics, where I ended up with a few case study nuggets to share with friends-but the writing style became monotonous and boring; too rich in experiences with the same ongoing argument repeated instead of developed.
I became intrigued by this book, when a fellow book club member spent time describing the more fascinating experiments within, sparking a great internal ‘bc’ conversation on human nature. The discussion became something I wanted to learn more about, so I decide to read this-learning more on how certain behaviors are impacted by social norms.
The author spent a great deal of time studying how we make decisions, engaging in various opportunities to apply his predictions. Overall, the experiments were interesting, though they didn’t provide any ground-breaking insight I wasn’t already aware of as a barrier (i.e money, brand names, placebo effects, and time limits). And a few studies were so repetitive of each other the reliability became iffy (i.e he began to influence and impact his subject matter and results too much because of controls within).
Overall, a decent quick read, on behavioral economics, where I ended up with a few case study nuggets to share with friends-but the writing style became monotonous and boring; too rich in experiences with the same ongoing argument repeated instead of developed.
elainewlin's review against another edition
5.0
In general, I enjoy books that analyze human behavior from both logical and emotional perspectives. This book does a good job of presenting models of thinking that skew the traditional rational choice theory.
bootman's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of the best books I’ve read on human behavior. I read a LOT of books on psychology, and Dan Ariely is one of my new favorites. He does and amazing job of building on ideas and explaining how results from studies can teach us quite a bit about a variety of situations