Dan Ariely: How to change your behavior for the better
丹‧艾瑞利: 如何改善行為?
The dismal science of economics is not as firmly grounded in actual behavior as was once supposed. In "Predictably Irrational," Dan Ariely told us why. Full bio
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that I have half a beard.
我的鬍子只有一半。
That's just how it happened.
about where is the potential for humanity
there's a big gap
and where we are,
have eaten more than you think you should?
在座的各位有誰飲食過量?
exercised less than you think you should?
誰覺得自己的運動量不足?
has raising your hands twice
texted while driving?
Let's test your honesty.
來測試大家的誠實度。
when you left the bathroom?
我們都願意承認邊開車邊發訊息,
willing to admit texting and driving
that's difficult.
that there's lots of things
but we're acting in a very different way.
但我們卻選擇了不同的做法。
how do we bridge that gap,
that texting and driving is dangerous.
邊開車邊發訊息很危險。
You should stop doing it.
他們就不會再去做。
is dangerous, and they will stop.
is that in the US,
and eight hundred million dollars a year
as a consequence of that?
at all the research ever to be conducted
相關研究——這叫做整合分析。
what's called a meta-analysis.
when you tell people,
three or four percent
還有 3~4% 的人會做改進,
to zero as possible.
來說是非常接近 0 了。
information to people
改變行為的好方法。
to change behavior.
has made lots of strides,
if we want to change behavior,
如果我們想要改變行為,
it's to change the environment.
而是去改變環境。
model of how to think about it:
模型,說明我們是怎麼想的:
運用在行為改變的思考模式上。
sending a rocket to space.
需做兩件重要的事情。
sending a rocket to space,
and have as little friction as possible
to load as much fuel as possible,
of motivation, energy to do its task.
推動力和能源去完成任務。
I'll tell you about,
to you a medication,
in the mail every 90 days.
medication, medication.
wants to switch people
to generic medication.
switch to generics.
your employer will save money."
你的僱主也能省錢。」
and nothing happens.
an amazing offer.
一整年都免費。」
it will be free for a whole year."
do you think switched?
幾篇「免費的誘惑」的論文。
on the "allure of free."
that if you reduce the price of something
如果調降某樣東西的價格,
nothing much happens.
人們不太會有什麼反應。
now people get excited.
大家就會興奮起來。
papers on 'free,' we gave 'free.'
這些『免費』的論文,
結果卻不如預期。
it's a question of friction."
頂多就是照用原廠藥。
generic over branded,
他們還得要選學名藥的品牌,
a "confounded design."
versus doing something.
and say, 'We're switching you to generics.
『我們要把你的藥換成學名藥。
please return the letter.'"
and creativity,
為了腦力激盪和創意,
and immoral, it's fine,
in the brainstorming phase.
the branded had the no-action benefit.
原廠藥具有「不行動」的優勢。
generic had the no-action benefit.
學名藥具有「不行動」的優勢。
a T-intersection:
客戶一個 T 叉路:
「如果你不回覆這封信,
to stop your medications.
you could choose branded at this price,
這個價格的原廠藥,
現在兩個選項的立足點平等吧?
the no-action benefit.
大家喜歡學名藥或原廠藥?
or do we like branded?
small things really matter.
the desired behavior
too much friction
from acting on it?
that the desired behavior
和簡而易行的行為並不一致時,
We talked about friction.
in a slum called Kibera in Kenya
基貝拉貧民窟的窮人,
for a rainy day.
you have no extra money,
你沒有額外的錢,
但天有不測風雲。
you have nothing to draw on, you borrow.
沒有錢,只好去借錢。
up to 10 percent interest a week.
it's really hard to get out of it.
something bad happens,
and worse and worse.
a little bit of money for a rainy day.
存一點錢來未雨綢繆。
what is the motivation,
once a week and said,
一週發一次說:
about a dollar -- "this week."
as if it came from their kids.
來發訊息給他們。
this is little Joey" --
爸,我是小喬伊」——
for the future of our family."
這週試著存一百先令。」
of guilt always works.
加點罪惡感通常會有用。
we'll give you 10 percent."
就給你10% 的現金獎勵。」
10 percent and 20 percent,
that we hate losing
討厭損失多於享受獲得。
who is in a 10-percent condition
得到的是 10% 的條件,
we give them four more,
我們就會多給他四先令,
if they gave a hundred,
他還能再得到六先令,
at the beginning of the week.
說「它在等著你!」
我們說:「喔,你存了四十,
we say, "Oh, you put 40 in,
and we're taking six back."
預先撥付或事後撥付,
leaving their account.
帳戶中的錢被拿走。
10 percent, 20 percent,
孩子發訊息、10%、20%、
somewhere in their hut,
and scratch the number for that week --
當週的數字上刻劃——
if they didn't save
do you think worked the best?
10 percent, 20 percent,
20%、一週的開始或結束、硬幣?
end of the week, and the coin?
the average people think.
都做了這種預測研究。
will get a lot of action,
其他的都沒有用——
will have a small effect.
People forget. Reminding people is great.
人會健忘,有提醒是很好的。
of the week helped some more.
just like 10 percent, no difference.
跟 10% 一樣,沒差。
the beginning of the week,
提供 10% 一樣,沒差。
of the week, no difference.
was just as effective
messages from kids were.
we don't use kids enough.
我們應該更善加利用孩子。
in a child labor sense.
parents and their kids,
source of motivation
of this study was the coin.
compared to everything else.
造成的存款幾乎都有兩倍。
What was it about the coin?
硬幣有什麼特別的?
thinking about the coin,
開始發想這個硬幣策略,
on, let's say, buying coffee,
I can sit in my office.
我可以坐在我的辦公室。
I know how it works.
of the poorest places in the world,
and see what's going on
about how the system works.
in South Africa,
that sells funeral insurance.
crazy amounts of money on weddings?
會花大把鈔票在婚禮上?
or two years of income on funerals.
兩年的收入在葬禮上。
Africans as being irrational with this,
在這件事上很不理智之前,
on funerals compared to weddings,
you only have one.
that sells funeral insurance.
葬禮保險的地方,
his son is about 12 --
十二歲的兒子進來,
of his funeral expense
他們買非常小額的保險 ,
they buy small amounts of insurance
he gives it to his son.
我心想,為什麼要這儀式?
I think to myself, why the ceremony?
that decides on that particular day
拿來買保險或存起來。
into insurance or savings.
be less food, less kerosene, less water --
表示食物、煤油、水都會變少——
and what our coin was trying to do
我們的硬幣策略在做的事,
food on the table,
many good, important economic activities,
很重要的經濟活動,
that are invisible.
How do we make them visible?
look at the system
we can fix, with friction,
有哪些小地方是我們能修補的?
that we can remove friction?
is to think broadly about the system,
更廣的角度來思考體制,
can we bring in?
what would work best.
Is it going to be loss aversion?
something that is visible?
to try different things.
our intuition sometimes misleads us.
有時會誤導我們。
what would work the best.
和已做到這兩者間的差距,
and where we are,
and to think about it.
會讓人非常感嘆。
there's lots we can do.
some of the changes are more complex.
more information to people
我們能消除差距嗎?不能。
Absolutely, yes.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Ariely - Behavioral economistThe dismal science of economics is not as firmly grounded in actual behavior as was once supposed. In "Predictably Irrational," Dan Ariely told us why.
Why you should listen
Dan Ariely is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He is the author of the bestsellers Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty -- as well as the TED Book Payoff: The Hidden Logic that Shapes Our Motivations.
Through his research and his (often amusing and unorthodox) experiments, he questions the forces that influence human behavior and the irrational ways in which we often all behave.
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