Blog Post #4- Decision making

I found a video about Decision Making including a speech by Dan Ariely
'Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?'

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html

The speech was filmed in December 2008
The person giving the speech was Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist
When Dan Ariely gives examples from different books or studies he says where the information is coming from and provides examples from his own research and his book

• In this speech, Dan talks about how including different options in a decision can make people choose a certain choice over another
• Dan Ariely did a study where he proved that by adding an inferior decision, it makes a certain option look superior
• Dan Ariely also showed that by deleting that inferior option, a different option appeared superior
•  Dan Ariely explains that humans don't know their own preferences that well and therefore will go by what they feel is a superior option
• Decision Illusion- things we don't do on a regular basis we are more likely to make many more mistakes in
• Sometimes it's not just you making decisions- the person who presents the decision or designs the decision will have a lot of influence over that decision
• External forces have a very great influence over decisions

This is relevant to my topic, Why do people behave the way they do in their normal lives?
This speech is giving a viewpoint from one of the many branches of pschology as to why people deide to do things in their own lives