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Investigating the Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is a behavioral scientist at MIT and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. See full bio
August 4, 2008, Behavioral Economics

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