{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6788c4b6bc4d37e16f4d6ae3/6788c4d0bc4d37e16f4d7028?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"048: Dan Ariely on trust, insurance & conspiracy theories","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6788c4b6bc4d37e16f4d6ae3/50cea22e15301eb9b02389a7a79cfc3b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>It&apos;s a cracker this week on A Load of BS as I welcome my partner BEworks&apos; co-founder, behavioural science leading light, writer, practitioner and speaker, <a href='https://danariely.com/'>Dan Ariely</a>.</p><p>Beyond his numerous entrepreneurial ventures, Dan is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics at Duke University and has written seminal books like <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/0007256531/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1664728778&amp;sr=8-1'>Predictably Irrational</a> and <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irrationally-Yours-Missing-Existential-Puzzles/dp/0062379992/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=irrationally+yours&amp;qid=1664728805&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjYzIiwicXNhIjoiMC42NSIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=irrationally%2Caps%2C107&amp;sr=8-1'>Irrationally Yours</a>. He&apos;s a multi time <a href='https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_ariely'>TED speaker</a> and recognised globally as one of behavioural science&apos;s most foremost, original thinkers.</p><p><b>Show notes</b></p><ul><li>The story of Dan’s half beard, how he accepts and understands himself</li><li>Persecution by the COVID deniers (joining the Bill Gates club)</li><li>Translating BS stories into the real world: tinkering and rethinking techniques<ul><li>What if we don’t know how to eat, exercise, sleep, have a good relationship? What would you do differently? Gaps of understanding, pools for improvement</li></ul></li><li>End of life: how do we make that chapter the best of the lives?</li><li>When spouses have a joint checking account, they spend and fight less</li><li>The anticipation of getting a kiss from your favourite movie star</li><li>Insurance and misaligned incentives: a cycle of distrust and abuse<ul><li>Removing conflicts of interest</li><li>Loss of value in truth telling in society</li></ul></li><li>ROI in cash handouts in international development: trust is the lubricant of the world</li><li>Crypto currency concerns: takes trust out of the equation</li></ul><p>Podcast music: <a href='https://music.apple.com/gb/album/concerto-for-violin-piano-string-orchestra-in-d-minor/713240539?i=713240621'><b>Tamsin Waley-Cohen&apos;s Mendelssohn&apos;s violin concerto</b></a></p><p><b>Check out my partner </b><a href='https://beworks.com/'><b>BEworks</b></a><br/><b>Subscribe for more </b><a href='https://aloadofbs.substack.com/'><b>here</b></a><b><br/>Click </b><a href='https://aloadofbs.substack.com/about'><b>here</b></a><b> to access rewards to power your brain<br/>Follow me on </b><a href='https://twitter.com/danielsjross'><b>Twitter</b></a></p>","author_name":"A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT"}