The new book is being released today, and so I’m very pleased to introduce it, in person! Well, sort of. Here I give you a preview of what kinds of topics the book explores (when, where, why, and to whom we lie) and how all these things affect you (they do!).
Thanks, and enjoy!
Hi, I’m Dan Ariely. I do research in behavioral economics and try to describe it in plain language. These findings have enriched my life, and my hope is that they will do the same for you.
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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The Upside of Irrationality, explores some positive and some negative ways that irrationality plays out in our lives.
When we make decisions we think we're in control. But are we?
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The interesting thing is, that some of the book vendors seem so preoccupied with selling your book that they already sent it out before it is actually released.
and I am already through with the first chapter. Well done 
Here in Germany I received my copy already a week ago
Maybe that publisher’s behaviour is worth a study
It has been a while since I looked forward to a book. It is ironic that this one should be about honesty and I’m already trying to find a pirated copy. How long until the audio book version comes out?
Congratulations! I am excited to read it, but I need to wait till it’s available via Audible.com. I hope that is soon. How do you autograph an audio book?
Do you get a discount if you order 10? I’ll have great presents for the next 9 birthdays in my social environment
congratulations from one author to another.
Let me add my congratulations to the others’ and let you know how much I’ve enjoyed the sneak previews you’ve been providing on your blog. They are so good, I generally post them on Facebook too – what’s not to be intrigued by?
Your Fan,
Pamela
I love how you pull the cover of the new book off of your previous book. Highlights your message very well.
Congratulations on the publication! I will try to get a hold of that, since I find the topic very fascinating. Honestly!
Congratulations! on both accounts….new book AND Freshly Pressed. I look forward to reading the book and reading more here on WordPress. Good luck to you.
You Matter! Smiles, Nancy
Congrats on the book! I’m in the process of compiling a book (based on my blog), so I’m excited to see this video book preview — nice work.
Interesting also that my blog was inspired by an act of dishonesty: a cheating husband.
I think I might need to read your book…
Heard about this on NPR last night. I have a friend who works for a PhD in the field. Very interesting stuff
Very clever! http://liseusetheloverofreading.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/loving-the-ugly/
I came across your work via Skip Prichard. Your book seems to explore some pretty interesting thoughts around honesty and dishonesty. I look forward to learning more – even though what I learn may be an unplanned challenge.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘Predictably Irrational’. Can’t wait to dig into the workings of a dishonest mind!
Congratulations on freshy pressed and the book. I look forward to reading it.
Being honest is over rated.
Steven Wade, Edinburgh and Dundee
I’ll put my hands up right now and say I’m a little afraid of reading this as I’d prefer to be known as merely having a tendency to be hyperbolic rather than actually dishonest!
Congrats on being freshly pressed! (honestly)
I look forward to your new book, currently reading The Upside of Irrationality right now. Btw sitting in front of the darkened window with the wind blowing outside was a nice poetic touch haha
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a lot to chew on here.
Sounds interesting! Looking forward to reading it.
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That’s an interesting post! Γιατί 1 λεπτό ύπνος στο αυτοκίνητο ισοδυναμεί με 1 ώρας;
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That’s an interesting post! Well done!
Wonderful title, long but catchy. Congrats on your new book and for making this post be featured on freshly pressed.
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Interesting…
wonderful
Enjoyed your talk at B&N the other night.
Would really like to encourage you to use some of the research to develop articles on ‘best practices’ for promoting honestly/non-cheating in the popular press. There are hundreds of thousands of teachers who could use the information, and it could have a real impact on society.
I found your website by accident. I read a couple comments about your books, then did some research… Now I’m really curious about your book. I’m definitely gonna read some.
I look forward to reading this.
I’ve not yet had a chance to discolor my world with lies but, as you say, the day is young. I look forward to reading your new book!
This sounds interesting. Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. Lies happen. I just always try to avoid unless telling the truth would bring pain to someone else that is greater than the pain of lying for me. The truth though is I usually come clean about the white lie to someone out of guilt and the need for reassurance that I did the right thing.
hank you for your share, I will read t
I just finished reading “The Honest Truth about Dishonesty,” and I can honestly say that this is Ariely’s best book yet. It contains the same sort of incredibly imaginative research as his previous books, but it illuminates a topic of significant moral and practical importance. As someone who does research and writes in the general field of behavioral decision making (see “The Paradox of Choice”), I know a fair amount about what’s out there. This book is one of the very best
I’m enjoying the new book, but there’s an issue that comes up for me in the first few pages, although certainly not for the first time with this book. Cost-benefit analysis makes no sense to me even if it’s actually carried out, which it pretty clearly isn’t. Or, rather, in my opinion it’s impossible to actually carry out a cost-benefit analysis. There is no logical sense to it. The benefit and cost are often impossible to equate. How, for instance, does one logically compare $10 million to 10 years in jail? Furthermore, a chance of incurring is not a cost at all. And, finally, because the cost is always filtered through the chance, even if the benefit and cost are both strictly monetary, there can’t be a logical analysis. Classical economics and, to an even greater extent, it’s little brother finance seem to be drunk on their own magical thinking almost all the time while stridently trying to pass it off as intellectually rigorous as pure math and real science.
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My readers seemed really interested in the art of lying, Craig Thomson style. Here’s the lowdown from an expert. Dan Ariely is practically a household god round our place. His new book ‘The honest truth about dishonesty’ is just out. Enjoy.
Hi Dan,
I haven’t read your book (yet) but I’m happy that a new one was released because I enjoyed reading the first two. I’m a researcher in empirical studies related to the evolution of software systems and reading your second book gave me an intreating idea of research but, unfortunately, in Romania I did not have the necessarily resources in order to implement it.
Anyway, as all researcher do, I’m part of different program committees and sometimes I send a paper to different conferences where I’m part of PC and sometimes I don’t. Now my question is: Do we comment more or see more minor issues within a paper we review when we also have a paper submitted to the same conference or not and…the fact that we have a paper submitted does or does not influence us when we write the review? Of course, I’m trying to be objective but is it possible? Do you know something about this?
Thank you,
Cristina
Dan,
I’m reading you book and really enjoying it. I thought of you when I read this Sports Illustrated story – Bad Lies at U.S. Open Qualifying. Take a look, you’ll get a kick out of it … and maybe another talking point.
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/page/USOpen-Reilly/bad-lies-us-open-qualifying
still good!
I nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award! for more info visit http://teensurge.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/105/
Great blogg!! inspiring
Dan,
To celebrate your new book, surely new light for me as the previous ones, I would like to share with you a saying in Spanish, which shows an extended trait of the Mexican idiosyncracy, for better or worse: “el que no transa, no avanza.” One translation could be “who do not cheat, do not progress”.
Congrats, for fresh pressed book. looking forward to read it down.