#behavior economics

[parwatisingari]

Anxiety Economies.

Undercover Disruptions Of War I grew up watching two doctors who practiced medicine very differently but observed people in remarkably similar ways—my father, Dr. Srinivasa Rao, and my grandfather, Dr. H. V. Hande. Between them, across clinics, waiting rooms, and dinner table conversations, I was exposed less to diseases and more to behavior—how people respond when life becomes uncertain,…

Anxiety Economies.

[alemanbarbecue]

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Re-read Week 37: Chapters 37 and 38: Experienced Well-Being and Thinking About Life

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Re-read Week 37: Chapters 37 and 38: Experienced Well-Being and Thinking About Life

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We are quickly closing in on the completion of the re-read of Thinking Fast and Slow. Today we are tackling the last two chapters before Kanhneman’s conclusions. Assuming “God willing and the creek don’t rise” (an Americanism), we will begin Crucial Conversations in three weeks. I have purchased my copy and have started reading the book.  (more…)

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[hum4nbehavi0r]

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: - You can manipulate it - You can inspire it

Start With Why by Simon Sinek

[sunflowermayhem]

Gallup.Com provides data-driven news based on U.S. and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research. Articles and videos cover news, politics, economy, behavioral economics, wellbeing, world issues, management, and employee engagement.

[buzzburo]

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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread [podcast 33 minutes]

It turns out that like bees, humans leave traceable patterns of information exchange. Alex Pentland explains the new science of social physics, which is about the way human social networks spread ideas and transform those ideas into behaviors. Pentland directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and his new book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread: The Lessons from a New Science, explores the patterns of information exchange in social networks, the ways humans are like bees, and how networks large and small can be tuned to increase exploration and community engagement. 

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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate021014apod.mp3

[mattkinshella]

"The two scholars provide plenty of evidence to rebut conventional fundraising wisdom and suggest that charitable giving is more about reinforcing the donor’s own well-being than helping others. They say that a failure to understand this motivation hurts charity fundraising: Nonprofits make their appeals based on the idea that donors want to help others, when really they want to help themselves." Also see: http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/10/how-to-raise-money-without-killing-a-kitten-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-full-transcript/

[ssatva-blog]

MOTIVATION

I remember in middle school I got one of the report cards that I got all the time:

"W clearly could be doing better, but he lacks motivation." 

This was a teacher who I could talk to, this time.  I came to class after school, slapped the report on his desk, and said

"OK, this has gone on long enough.  Fine. 

"Motivate me."

He stammered about cars and girls and such, and I either said "don't care" or "not on those terms."  Eventually he handed me Candide. 

I am not sure what he was trying to say, really.  But it was kind of a start, in some sort of a strange direction.

[aimar-blog]

So Amazon think they have me figured out? Hah! Well I´ll show them who knows how my brain works. After I´ve purchased the three new recommendations they found for me that is. 

Mr Beezos. It seems you are a very good at this algorithm thingy. Hat tip.

PS Best book last year about thinking and the irrational human being? Daniel Kahneman is your man.