To make your small business operate effectively, you need managers who can supervise employees and make decisions using the right combination of logic and intuition. However, managers are people, too, ...

It can be difficult to figure out how to deal with a boss who has a tendency to be irrational. You might characterize them as volatile, highly demanding, and generally hard to please. Perhaps they ...

A couple weeks ago, I watched a documentary on Netflix ( NFLX) entitled, "(Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies". The film is about the research of Duke's Professor of Psychology and Behavioral ...

Ahhh summertime! The time of year many of us go somewhere, anywhere, to get away from the heat. Which is also, usually, a great time to catch up on your reading. So, I thought it would be a good time ...

Investment theories that have dominated thinking in the last half century or so have all stemmed from the efficientmarket hypothesis. These theories assume investors make rational decisions, all ...

Shaping behavior has always been an integral part of design, but whether the design is good for users isn’t always clear cut. Since first being coined as a term in 2010, Behavior Design has grown in ...

Because economists generally assume that people behave rationally, you might expect members of my profession to have been flummoxed by the behavior of many United States senators during the repeated, ...