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Coursera: Dan Ariely's Course on "A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior" Open for Enrollment!
Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke, Dan Ariely is no ordinary man. With 70% of his body burned in an explosion when he was a teenager, a day in the life of Dan is plagued with aching limbs and hands that don’t always work, much less fit into ski gloves. But that doesn’t stop him from conquering the field of behavioral economics as the expert on all things “irrational.” One of the main themes in Dan’s research is the contrast between what a rational agent should do, at least according to standard economic theory, and how we humans actually behave. In his upcoming course on Coursera, “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior,” Dan will provide an introduction to behavioral economics that makes you scratch your head and wonder why we act in the curious ways we do. How stable and consistent are our preferences? How do we think about money? How do we justify unethical behavior? What motivates us to work? How can we exhib…