#33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies

Welcome to the Furnum Street podcast called The Knowledge. I'm your host, Shane Parrish, the curator behind Furnum Street Blog, which is an online community focused on mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. The Knowledge Project is where we talk with interesting people to uncover the frameworks you can use to learn more in less time, make better decisions, and live a happier and more meaningful life. On this episode, I have Dan Arielli. Dan is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He publishes widely in leading scholarly journals in economics, psychology, and business. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He's the author of Numerous books including Predictably Irrational and one of my favorites, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty.

I'm so happy to have Dan on the show. I hope you enjoy this conversation. I'm a huge fan of your writing and thankful for the work that you've done to bring our subconscious biases to the forefront. Let's start there. Daniel Conman, the famous psychologist, once said something like I've been studying all these biases for my whole life, but I don't think I'm any better at avoiding them.

Dan has studying these biases and error helped Do you avoid it? Are you What do you do, Joe? Yeah, I saw first of all, I don't think that Danny was uh uh truthful in his answer but

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