I recently started working on my next book.

It is generally going to be more stories about my research and the plan is to have 3 parts

Part 1: Personal life, happiness, adaptation, dating, and online dating
Part 2: business life: motivation at work, the role of bonuses, mistrust, and revenge
Part 3: cheating: the effects of observing other people cheat, group based cheating, the effect of one dishonest act on others etc.

The current title is:

Living irrationally: the way we work, date and cheat.

If you have any other suggestions for a title, please email me at dan at predictablyirrational dot com

Many thanks

Dan

Luisa Monk, a high school student in the UK just created a pop-up version of my book.

have a look:

Dear Readers –

Over the last few months I have posted a few short fictional stories that some of the students in my class wrote (see this link).

Some were more popular and some were less, but many of you expressed interest in sharing your own fictional short stories or experiences of irrational behaviors

So –If you are interested in submitting a short story, I will post the best of these here, and if you are interested in sharing a kernel of an idea with me, I will take the best of these and try to make a short (fictional) story from it

Please send your stories and / or experiences to living.irrationally at gmail.com.  I look forward to your emails and learning more about the role of irrationality in our lives!

We have been doing some research on the effects of wearing fake…

Here is a short video on this

Here is a video dedicated to the start of a new academic year.

Today we all have good intentions but what will come of these intentions in the future?

Happy semester

So, today I tried one approach for office hours

We had some complexities and a learning curve, but I think this technology has a future for such “office hours”.

Tomorrow at 12 (EST) I will try this again, this time with a different technology, holding online office hours with Duke this Friday, July 31, at noon Eastern Time.

Feel free to ask questions, in advance or during the event, three ways: 1) Post a comment on this Facebook page — http://apps.facebook.com/dukeuniversitylive/. 2) Send an email to live@duke.edu. 3) Post a Twitter comment with the tag #dukelive. Or write comments on this blog in advance.
You can also watch on Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity) or Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/dukeuniversitylive). <http://apps.facebook.com/dukeuniversitylive>  <http://apps.facebook.com/dukeuniversitylive>

After both of these attempts, we will see what approach to adapt….

This is another lovely example of people getting annoyed with companies (this time with United Airlines over breaking up a Taylor guitar), and making it into a revenge type of advertisement.

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

A few people purchased the original version of Predictably Irrational since it came out in February 2008.

Now that the expanded edition is out, it seemed to me that the right thing would be to get the extra material to those who have purchased the book already.  After discussing this idea with HarperCollins, my publisher, we decided to try an honor system for distributing the extra material.

So — if you purchased the original version of Predictably Irrational and you want the extra material, please email  piexpanded@gmail.com and we will email you back the added information in 3 PDFs (a new introduction, added material about the original chapters, and reflections about the financial markets).

Irrationally yours

Dan

2008 was a very interesting and important year for Behavioral Economics.

For many years, the common reaction to the experimental evidence showing different types of irrationality was that these irrationalities will “go away” when dealing with professional people, dealing with a lot of money, and of course acting within the competitive environment of the market.

While I never understood the intensity of beliefs in these arguments, it was not really possible to test these assertions — so this remained an academic debate.

In 2008 when the markets failed is such a miserable way, it became clear that rationality was not just playing a role in “regular” peoples’ lives, and that it was also a part of professional sector and our institutions.  Now irrationality became much more interesting to the general audience, business, and even policy makers.

Predictably Irrational was first published in February 2008, and given the relative ease of modifying books these days, I decided to add some of my reflections on the stock market crisis — and create an expanded edition of Predictably Irrational.  Once I decided to add some material, I also realized that I have learned some new things in the last two years about some of the original chapters in Predictably Irrational, so I added some material about these topics as well.

The expanded edition will come out on May 19th, with a somewhat different cover (see below), more material, and also with a more aggressive stand against rational economics.

I am looking forward to the reactions to this version, and in particular to the criticisms from rational economists.

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