From Publishers Weekly
Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money. According to Ariely, our understanding of economics, now based on the assumption of a rational subject, should, in fact, be based on our systematic, unsurprising irrationality. Ariely argues that greater understanding of previously ignored or misunderstood forces (emotions, relativity and social norms) that influence our economic behavior brings a variety of opportunities for reexamining individual motivation and consumer choice, as well as economic and educational policy. Ariely's intelligent, exuberant style and thought-provoking arguments make for a fascinating, eye-opening read. (Feb.)
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Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dan Ariely grew up in Israel after birth in New York. He served in the Israeli army and when 18 suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental magnesium flare explosion during training.
Ariely recovered and went on to graduate from Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day.
Ariely is the author of the book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, which was published on February 19, 2008 by HarperCollins. When asked whether reading Predictably Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could make a person's life worse (such as by defeating the benefits of a placebo), Ariely responded that there could be a short term cost, but that there would also likely be longterm benefits, and that reading his book would not make a person worse off.
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哇,这本书的封面设计简直太抓人眼球了!那种鲜明的色彩对比和略带迷幻感的排版,让人忍不住想知道里面究竟藏着怎样一番奇妙的洞见。我拿到它的时候,首先被它厚实的装帧吸引,拿在手里沉甸甸的,感觉就像捧着一个知识的宝库。内页的纸张质感也相当不错,阅读起来非常舒适,即使长时间沉浸其中,眼睛也不会感到疲惫。装帧的细节处理得非常到位,书脊的烫金字体在灯光下泛着低调而奢华的光芒,这无疑是为这本书增添了不小的收藏价值。作者在排版上的匠心独运也值得称赞,章节之间的过渡自然流畅,图文的搭配恰到好处,经常有一些小小的插画或者信息图表,既打破了纯文字的单调,又巧妙地辅助了观点的阐述。这本书光是放在书架上,就散发着一种知识的重量感,每次不经意间瞥到它,都仿佛能感受到作者试图通过这种物理形态传达给读者的那种严肃和认真的态度。不得不说,从包装到内页,这本书的整体视觉体验,就已经成功地为接下来的阅读建立了一个非常积极和充满期待的基调。
评分我必须强调这本书在逻辑构建上的严谨性,这才是它真正经得起推敲的地方。尽管叙事轻松愉快,但支撑起每一个观点的理论基础却非常扎实,仿佛是一座用精钢浇筑的骨架,被华丽的装饰外表完美地隐藏了起来。作者似乎非常擅长设置“陷阱”,他会先抛出一个看似完全合乎常理的初始假设,然后通过一系列层层递进的实验数据和对照分析,逐步揭示出我们思维中的内在矛盾。每一次“啊哈!”的顿悟时刻,都建立在之前严密铺设的逻辑台阶之上,让人不得不佩服其深厚的学术功底和对实验设计的精妙把控。更令人称道的是,作者在引用外部研究成果时,引用得非常精准和巧妙,从不滥竽充数,每一个引用的佐证都像是为他正在构建的大厦添上了一块至关重要的基石。读到最后,你会发现,所有的看似零散的观察和故事,最终都汇聚成了一张宏大而自洽的认知地图,让人对人类决策的复杂性有了更深刻、更系统的理解。
评分这本书对我的个人生活产生了立竿见影的影响,这是很多理论书籍难以企及的成就。我记得读到关于“锚定效应”的那一章时,我正在为一笔大宗采购而头疼,书中的理论瞬间点醒了我,让我意识到自己是如何被最初看到的价格所‘绑架’了思维。读完那部分内容后,我立即调整了我的谈判策略,结果出乎意料地顺利。这种学以致用的即时满足感是无与伦比的。它不是那种读完后让你感叹“原来如此”就束之高阁的书,而是会像一把手术刀,在你日常的购物、投资、甚至人际交往中,不断地帮你切除那些盲目的、非理性的决策习惯。我开始有意识地去审视那些看起来“很划算”的促销活动背后的真实价值,也开始更加警惕那些不请自来的第一印象。这种知识带来的实用价值,超越了单纯的智力满足,它实实在在地改变了我与世界的互动方式,让人感觉自己像是获得了一副能看穿世界运作规则的“X光眼镜”。
评分这本书的叙事风格,怎么说呢,就像是听一位睿智的长者在炉边娓娓道来,充满了生活的气息和令人信服的烟火气。它不像那种高高在上的学术著作,充斥着晦涩难懂的专业术语,反而更像是一系列精心编排的小故事集合,每一个故事都像是从我们日常生活中截取出来的真实片段,只是被作者用一种全新的、近乎魔术般的视角重新审视了一遍。作者的笔触极其细腻,他总能精准地捕捉到我们在做决定时那些不易察觉的心理波动和微妙的逻辑漏洞。我尤其欣赏他那种不带批判,而是带着一种好奇和探索精神去解构人类行为的方式,读起来让人感觉非常放松,仿佛你不是在被说教,而是在参与一场智力游戏。那些论证过程,被包裹在生动幽默的案例里,让你在不知不觉中就被引导至一个全新的认知层面。即便是对于一些复杂的社会现象,作者也能用极其通俗易懂的语言进行阐释,确保即便是对心理学背景完全不了解的读者,也能轻松跟上他的思路,并从中获得巨大的启发。这种“润物细无声”的教育方式,才是真正高明的。
评分这本书的后劲实在太大了,读完合上封面,那种思绪万千的感觉持续了好几天。它并没有给出一个简单的“你应该怎么做”的答案,相反,它更像是一个打开了无数扇门的钥匙,让你开始质疑自己一直以来深信不疑的“常识”。最大的收获在于,它成功地消解了我对自己“理性人”身份的过度自信。我们总以为自己是理性的,是经过深思熟虑后才做出选择的,但这本书像一面无情的镜子,照出了我们在决策过程中那些充满偏见、依赖捷径的“动物本能”。这种自我认知的颠覆,带来的不是沮丧,而是一种更谦逊、更具同理心的视角去看待周围的人。我开始明白,别人的“愚蠢决定”可能并非源于智力缺陷,而是我们都在同一套人类共有的心智脚本下运作。这本书的价值在于,它不仅让你更聪明地思考,更重要的是,它让你对“人”这个物种,产生了更深层次的理解与宽容。
评分Fantastic! This is how those Malcolm Gladwell books should have been written or, what those Gladwell books pretended to be but are not.
评分又读了一遍,全书每一章对我的工作、学习和生活的启发都很大。
评分优:各种实验很好玩,浅显易懂 缺:太水
评分Fantastic! This is how those Malcolm Gladwell books should have been written or, what those Gladwell books pretended to be but are not.
评分整本书 is a good read. 缺点的话,稍微浅薄。
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