048: Dan Ariely on trust, insurance & conspiracy theories

It's a cracker this week on A Load of BS as I welcome my partner BEworks' co-founder, behavioural science leading light, writer, practitioner and speaker, Dan Ariely.

Beyond his numerous entrepreneurial ventures, Dan is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics at Duke University and has written seminal books like Predictably Irrational and Irrationally Yours. He's a multi time TED speaker and recognised globally as one of behavioural science's most foremost, original thinkers.

Show notes

• The story of Dan’s half beard, how he accepts and understands himself
• Persecution by the COVID deniers (joining the Bill Gates club)
• Translating BS stories into the real world: tinkering and rethinking techniques
  • What if we don’t know how to eat, exercise, sleep, have a good relationship? What would you do differently? Gaps of understanding, pools for improvement
• End of life: how do we make that chapter the best of the lives?
• When spouses have a joint checking account, they spend and fight less
• The anticipation of getting a kiss from your favourite movie star
• Insurance and misaligned incentives: a cycle of distrust and abuse
  • Removing conflicts of interest
  • Loss of value in truth telling in society
• ROI in cash handouts in international development: trust is the lubricant of the world
• Crypto currency concerns: takes trust out of the equation

Podcast music: Tamsin Waley-Cohen's Mendelssohn's violin concerto

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Podcast music: Tamsin Waley-Cohen's Mendelssohn's violin concerto