This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Hair pulling — Yes, when someone pulls your hair – if you have enough hair that someone can pull it – it hurts. But the truth of why that is, and some of the how much and […]
A little dishonesty can, maybe, in the right hands, used judiciously, be a tool that brings creativity to your business, suggests a study by Professor Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School and Scott S. Wiltermuth of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. (The video you see here shows Duke University [and former MIT] professor Dan Ariely, who has […]
Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Ariely has a new book out. It’s called The Honest Truth About Dishonesty — How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves. Catch him live on his book tour (which today arrives in first Cambridge, then Boston, Massachusetts) Ariely shared (with Rebecca L. Waber, Baba Shiv and Ziv Carmon) the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize […]