Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics
James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics

Phone: (919) 660 7703
Email: dan.ariely@duke.edu

Physical Address:
W307 Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC 27708

Postal Address:
Box 90120
Durham, NC 27708-0120

Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Economics Department and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Professor of Business at the Fuqua School of Business and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. As a behavioral economist, he studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His work has been published in leading psychology, economics, and business journals, and he serves on a number editorial review boards. Dan recently wrote a general audience book on Behavioral Economics “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.” He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and President elect of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University, a master’s and doctorate degree in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Duke University. He is currently working on a new book titled Dining Without Crumbs: The Art of Eating Over the Sink.

Read Dan Ariely’s blog, PredictablyIrrational.com.

Watch videos of Dan Ariely’s ideas including “What is Morality?” and “Are faith and religion irrational?”