Third, Dan Ariely has studied how powerful the idea of“free”can be; in short, people love free things. Receiving a “free” drink in our hypothetical coffee shop (paid for by another customer) should be more desirable than directly paying for the drink. At this hypothetical coffee shop w...
In other cases accountants are torn between reporting misbehaviors that are going on and between minding their own business – should they open up a can of worms and be at the center of a controversy or just take heart in the fact that they were true to the ethics of their profession? T...
Behavioral Economics psychology Real-World The Behavioral Economics of Eating Animals May 27, 2011BY danariely Share: Tweet Like Behavioral Economics & Psychology eating animals Food&Drink humanely raised Jared Wolfe Jonathan Safran Foer morality
Hunting: Many find hunting immoral, yet animals that are hunted would generally have lived a much better life up until death than animals in factory farms (e.g., the Sarah Palin hunting controversy and Aaron Sorkin’sinfamous lettercriticizing her, even though he is not a vegetarian, and so...