Jewish Futures: Professor Dan Ariely on What Makes Us Happy
Professor Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, discusses what makes up happy at the 2016 Jewish Futures Conference.
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With an introduction and welcome from Aaron Dorfman, President, Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah.
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at the Fuqua School of Business. Dan studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would if they were rational beings. Dan’s bestselling books about behavioral economics include Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, The Upside of Irrationality, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, and most recently, Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles.
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Produced through a partnership between The Jewish Education Project and The Lippman Kanfer Institute for Living Torah.
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