Office hours on July 30th
On July 30th, I’m going to hold a virtual office hour 12:00PM-1:00 PM EDT.
I’ll talk about some new research that we’ve been doing and will take some questions.
I recently started using GoToMeeting, and I am looking forward to see how it works on a larger scale.
If you want to take part, and have a question that you’d like me to try to answer, shoot me an email in advance at dan at predictablyirrational dot com.
Directions to join the office hours:
on Thursday, July 30 at 12:00 PM EDT.
1. Click on this link
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/249041699
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
Dial 309-946-4601
Access Code: 249-041-699
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 249-041-699
Irrationally yours
Dan
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
Dan,
Just finished the book…big fan! I am the VP of HR for a large corporation and think that they’re are so many things to learn and apply from your studies. Just wanted to say thanks for your hard work…
Vince
Hi,
would love it if you guys could produce a RSS feed from your blog.Please, let us know if it’s possible.
Regards,
A
Hi Dan, you should have an email opt-in. That way you know how many people are subscribed to the webinar event and also you cna send a 1 day and 1 hour reminder before the webinar begins.
I’ll mention it on my facebook profile for those who are interested. Looking forward to it!
Greetings to Dan and also to all the fans of Predictably Irrational,
An interesting article can be found at http://hayekcenter.org/?p=1439
Motto: “Academics, like teenagers, sometimes don’t have any sense regarding the degree to which they are conformists.”
Enjoy the reading
David
I am afraid that GoToMeeting can hold up to 16 participants.
Looking forward to this call!
Dear David,
Thanks for sharing the link, that’s interesting.
Cheng
Will the transcript be accessible at a later date for those of us who can’t make the “office hours”?
Dan:
I run a series of live interviews (www.futureofeducation.com) that use the Elluminate platform, which can accommodate up to 600+ participants.
I now work for Elluminate, and it would be very easy (and fun for me) to provide you with a room for you use for your office hours.
Let me know if I can help. I’m steve@hargadon.com or stevehargadon on Skype.
I will try to improve the office hours for the future, including posting the topic, and taking more questions (maybe in advance).
As for an RSS feed — see the bottom of the right panel
or use this link:
feed://www.predictablyirrational.com/wp-rss2.php?cat%5Cx3d7
In reading the book I couldn’t help but think of episodes of Seinfeld that seemed to so accurately depict certain behaviors. Specifically, I’m thinking of the episode where Jerry starts to date his cleaning lady as a perfect example of the muddling of the line between social and market norms. Eventually she starts taking the money he sets aside for her to clean his apartment even though she didn’t actually do any cleaning, she just did her girlfriend duties. When he brings up the distinction she says, “So what are saying, Jerry, that I’m some kind of prostitute?” When it ends she storms out of the apartment saying, “Don’t call me!” to which Jerry replies, “Don’t worry, because we’re through…and you’re fired!”
I’m sure there are more. (The Simpsons seems like it work really well, too.)
Dr. Ariely,
I just finished Predictability Irrational as a requirement for my first year college English class and ended up thoroughly enjoying it! One chapter specifically caught my interest was The Cost of Social Norms.
Your desciption of the modern workplace as a “blurred” line between the social and market norms made a convincing argument as to how todays companies are taking advantage of social exchanges in professional settings.However, on page 80 (of the expanded edition) you discuss the industrial market-driven exchange America experienced in the past. To me, that time period of cleancut 40 hour work weeks seems more appealing than the “24/7 work environment” we are now familiar with because of the social norms we have integrated into our work lives.
From what I understood, you were concerned about the need for social norms to outweigh market norms in order for American productivity to reach its full potential. But isn’t it true that the market-driven workforce of decades past kept our factory industry successful? What are your thoughts on this? What makes the blurred 24/7 social-driven workweek we see today more “productive” than what we’ve seen in the past?
Thank you,
Janelle