The Center’s newest advisory board member, Dan Ariely, offers up a few tips for getting the best of procrastination. A couple of interesting points: In a survey of 3000 online visitors, Dan found that the top three behaviors...
Dan Ariely and colleagues have done a couple of very interesting studies that look at the role of price in the effect of placebos. The first study is near and dear to the pharmacy benefit. As reported in the Journal of the...
Just read a fascinating report from Christian Wheeler’s group at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The report tackles an interesting question: Does how you vote depend on where you vote? As we’ve noted before...
There’s an interesting post over at Freakonomics about price discrimination. (That’s what economists call the ability to charge different buyers different prices for the same good. To get away with this, the seller needs to...
A recent study published in the journal Science reports interesting effects of color on human behavior. Researchers asked participants to perform tasks with words or images displayed against red, blue, or neutral computer...
