Social Media Ideas for Daniel Kahneman

How does explicit reliability guide choices? Effect of trustworthiness on choice and metacognition

by Keiji Ota, Anthony Ciston, Patrick Haggard, Thibault Gajdos Preuss, Lucie Charles A key challenge in today’s fast-paced digital world is to integrate information from various s...

Behavioral Economics & UX: Design for Irrational Humans

People don’t decide the way classical economics assumes. They take mental shortcuts and follow seemingly irrational rules that were tuned for survival in the Paleolithic, not for p...

Smart People, Poor Decisions: The Blind Spot of Success

We've all seen smart people make poor decisions. Understanding the difference between a successful track record and good judgment is key to overcoming bias that impacts choices.

I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate.

Dan Ariely—the much-decorated business school professor, retired Wall Street Journal columnist, Ted-talk star, NPR hero, Jeffrey Epstein contact, Founding Partner of Irrational Cap...

Abhijit Banerjee in Tasting Economics: When the menu is the message

Deterministic dynamics of distributional multi-agent reinforcement learning

by Clémence Bergerot, Pawel Romanczuk, Wolfram Barfuss Understanding how cognition shapes behavior across contexts remains a fundamental challenge for many disciplines. In particu...

The Illusion of Expertise: How New Property Investors Fall into the Dunning-Kruger Trap

In the world of property investment, a troubling phenomenon often rears its head: the Dunning-Kruger Effect. You see.. when it comes to money, seemingly rational people don’t alway...

It’s satisfying to see the economics profession come around on some things (regression discontinuity analysis and so-cal...

Jonathan Falk points to this post by Nicholas Decker and writes: I thought you’d be interested in a couple of things in this. First, the regression discontinuity pictures and Decke...

Should You Trust the Algorithm or Your Gut?

Most people either blindly trust AI or reject it outright. The real skill is calibration, and it's learnable.

Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effe...

The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence bedeviling the ranks of upper management. There is “the Peter principle,” first described in a satiri...

People Think They’ve Found an Easy Way to Make Better Food Choices. A New Study Says They’re Fooling Themselves

‘Consumers are very concerned, and they are right.’

Context-dependent feature modulation shapes human decision policies in approach–avoidance conflicts

by Sergej A. E. Golowin, Niall W. Duncan, Faizan Shaikh, Christoph W. Korn Sequential decisions often involve trade-offs between immediate rewards and future risks, particularly i...

Think You Make New Decisions From Scratch? Your Brain’s Reward Map Suggests Otherwise

Positive experiences create linked memory networks that help your brain predict rewarding outcomes, even when you face unfamiliar circumstances.

Random rewards enrich classic game-theory insights

Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.