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  1. Crowd psychology meets behavioral economics, and the result isn’t Jekyll becoming Hyde—it’s Hyde on a megaphone.

    Le Bon argued that rational individuals lose their reason in a crowd. But modern behavioral science shows the “rational individual” never existed in the first place.

    #BehavioralEconomics #Econ #Economics #CrowdPsychology #Kahneman #Ariely #Blog #Reason #MassPsychology #Groupthink #Philosophy #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Crowds #Madness #MentalHealth #Crazy #Science #Enlightenment

  2. Wow - the insurance company that gave Dan Ariely the data to work with confirms that Ariely's research was fraudulent. They made a statement to NPR stating that the honesty "nudges" produced no statistically significant changes in behavior npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/

    #danariely #ariely #academicchatter #academicfraud