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Does Thinking About Your Spouse Change Your Financial Behavior?
By Wendy De La Rosa and Tuo Yang Take a moment and think about the most important financial decisions you make in your life: buying a house, investing for retirement, or saving for your kids’…
Common Cents Lab, Improve Cash Flow Management, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / OCTOBER 17 2018
Applying Behavioral Science to Improve Retention Among Financial Coaching Programs
Whether it’s our morning routines or how we relax, a lot of how we behave from one day to the next is out of habit and we don’t give it a lot of thought….
Common Cents Lab / APRIL 10 2018
Asking Pays off – Save Money with Just One Phone Call
Credit card debt is at an all-time high. More than a third of households in the US carrying more than $16,000 in credit debt, with an average APR of 19.49%. If these households paid…
Common Cents Lab, Manage Debt / MARCH 19 2018
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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…
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…
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…
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…