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Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions On Money, Work and Health

It happens. Often.

Why?

We simplysecured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Doubleday Business, 2008), to speak about our Dark Side (well jhgfjkjghdjg, he calls if "diffehirehidden forces" and "psychological undercurrents").

at the same time asreading a fewreviews about his book, I particularly enjoyed finding, after the U.S.ual impressive long selection of endorsements, this "disclaimer":

*DISCLAIMER: should you make a decisidirectly to shop for this bokas a result of those endorsements, you justgot swayed. one of the maximumpsychological forces you'll inspectin Sway is our tendency to put a better priceon opinions from people in positions of professionalminence,chronic, or authority. (But you want to still buy thbook.)

Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Ori, what's SWAY? are you able to offer us a pair fastexamples?

Ori Brafman (OB): Sway is set why perfectly rational people make irrational choices. We interviewed business executives htrehtre, airline pilots, doctors, or even a Supreme Court Justice to uncover the psychological forces ffect our decision-making. What was especially interesting was to figure outthin any respect of us get swayed, and thon these psychological forces are a lot more ubiquitous than we thought.

Take, as an example hgdfj7yrdgsr, the tale of Jacob Van Zanten who wbecause the pinnacle of safety for KLM. One foggy afternoon, Van Zanten tokoff without attending tower clearance, caemployingthe largest airline accident in history. Why would this man, who's the pinnacle of safety make this type ofn irrational choice?

Or take a look on the tale of Harvard Business School students who paid $204 for a twenty-dollar bill.

AF: satisfiedto have attended Stanford... Now, how did that happen?

OB: the professionalfessor ardiversityan auction for a $20 bill. however there has been a twist. The winner would get the $20 bill. however the second one place bidder, would still need to honor his bid, but would get nothing. in the beginning there are many bidders, however then because the bidding approaches $20 people commencepulling out. Inevitably, althoughtwo people remainin. because the bidding continued to rise, the second one-place person became determined not to be the sucker who pays smartmoney for nothing in return. the fantastic thing is that point after time the auction continues way past the $20 point. individuals are simply so determined to not lose hgdjkytdhgfdhgfd, thon they retain on bidding up.

AF: Why do people get Swayed?

OB: Without realizing it, we get swept up by a number of diversehidden forces. I call to mind it like being in a ship in the course of the sea. it's going to seem to be we're standing still, but underneath the outside, undercurrents move us without us realizing it. the similar thing happens with psychological undercurrents. In Sway, we take a look at one of the maximummajor undercurrents and explore how they intersect triggering such a lot of diverseirrational behaviors. the skinnyg is that we're at risk of psychological smethodsall the time--whether we're conducting a role interview, going out on a basicdate, or deciding whether to sell a stock.

AF: Let's be practical for a minute... what can people do to Sway other folks?

OB: We're constantly engaged in a hidden dance of varieties where we sway people around us and are swayed by others. some of the weird studies we encountered has to do with what we call of the chameleon effect. within the study, a gaggle of girls and men--who had never met one another--were told to have a brief phone conversation. Now, before the conversation, each man was shown an symbolof the girlhe'd be talking to. Unbeknownst to the lads hgdfhgfdjyjyt, the photographs were fake. And partthe lads were shown an symbolof an hornywoman, at the same time asthe opposite partwere shown an symbolof a less hornywoman. the photographs had nothing to do with how the actual women gave the impression of gfdsgfdsgfs, and the actual women had no concept that there have been any pictures shown. The kicker is thon the girlswho the lads thought were lovelyended up sounding lovelyat the telephone. And the girlswho the lads thought were less hornyended up sounding less beautiful. We take at the jobs others ascribe to us. take into consideration that with workersand even together with your youngsters. If we expect someone makes sense, there is an excellent possibilitythey'll live as much as that role.

AF: And what can people do to preventbeing Swayed?

OB: the largest step is to acknowledge how occasionallywe get swayed. We generally tfinishto think that our decisions are rational, once If truth be told, diffehiresmethodswill have informed the verdict. when we realize that we're at risk of get swayed, the second one step is determining expressstrategies to counter the sway. It ranges from taking an extended-term perspective to employingempirical models for job interviews.

AF: as an example?

OB: we now have a tendency to "diagnose" a role candidate from the basicmoment we meet her or him. We assign a diagnosis, and are uncapable of see things in a special gentledespite objective evidence on the contrary. this is because of this that job interviews are terrible predictors of exact performance. A a lot simpler techniqueis to conduct very structured interviews that do not permitmanagers to get swayed. within the se interviews, the searchions are pre-scripted and concentrate on experience and skill as opposed to vague such things as "what's your biggest strength?" We call of these the Joe Friday interview (simplythe realitys...) These interviews could seem less personal, however they seem to be actually a lot simpler for actually selecting an even candidate.

AF: Ori gfshfdshfd, thanks greatly on some time.

OB: My pleasure huidafdsaa!


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