Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions

(dis)honesty

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 12:30 PM - 1:05 PM
International Ballroom West

Dan Ariely
Duke University

Ariely will discuss how the principles of behavioral economics can help us understand some of our irrational tendencies, specifically the mechanisms at work behind dishonest behavior and why we are still able to think of ourselves as honest even when we act dishonestly.

This is part of the Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions Theme Program. Additional Speakers

Dan Ariely in the news: NPR (Sept 28, 2010), The Huffington Post (Sept 23, 2010), The New York Times (Sept 22, 2010), Los Angeles Times (Sept 20, 2010), CBS Moneywatch (Oct 13, 2010), MSNBC (Oct 25, 2010), and Business Insider (Jan 6, 2011).

Subject Area: Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions