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The Ideal Startup Teams for The CAH Startup Lab
The CAH is inviting health and finance startups to join the Startup Lab program (October ’17-June ’18). Applications are only open until June 30th at 5pm EST– Apply now. Wondering if your startup team…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Startup Lab / JUNE 26 2017
Helping People Save with Privacy and Transparency
As a choice architect, how would you encourage salient saving and discourage conspicuous consumption? See what Dan and Aline have to say in their paper on the choice architecture of privacy decision-making, hot off…
Exploration & Experimentation for Entrepreneurship
This is the fourth installment in a five-part series on the CAH’s Startup Lab, our academic incubator program for health and finance tech startups. We’re demystifying why and how a behavioral economics research center…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Startup Lab / JUNE 22 2017
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Help surprise Dan for his 50th birthday
People all over the world will photograph themselves holding a sign with one word, which will be combined into a birthday story sent to Dan Ariely for his 50th birthday, this April 29th If…
Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab
Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke is now accepting applications for its second cohort of the Startup Lab, which begins October 2016. Health and…
All You Need Is a Little Encouragement from Your Friends
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. My phone buzzes with a text. “Who’s running?” asks my friend Ankoor. ?♀️ replies Eileen; she’s in. I perform a slow mental wince at the…
Saving By Spending
This week, I visited a camera store to order two enlarged prints as a gift. I don’t order photo prints very often; in fact, I’m not sure that I have ever ordered prints aside…