Ariely Sources

For this paper I am going to replicate an experiment originally performed by Ariely. In this expeirment I will go into the dorm lounge and place a few sodas in the fridge and some money in a bowl on the table. I will see how much cash and how many sodas are taken each day over the course of a week. I wonder if people will have more incentive to take the money as time continues to past.

The first journal article I chose was, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, here David Redish writes about the science behind human decision making. He discusses 10 key components as to why people may perform maladaptive behaviors. I could use this science in my paper to see what goes on in the brain to make people steal/cheat and then relate it back to my experiment.

Secondly I chose a book called, How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer. This book basically explains how we make everyday decisions. The three main applications are how we problem solve, make decisions and plan. Its interesting to me that how we decide between what we want and what we need and I think that this correlates nicely with Ariely's ideas when it comes to cheating and stealing. Then I will analyze it further to see how it correlates with my own experiment.

The last source that I decided to use for this project was a book by Sheena Iyengar called, The Art of Choosing. In the book she describes how our choices make up our lives. So what we choose to do or not do makes up who we ware and how we live. So if we chose to cheat/ steal does it affect our whole live or just one decision? I can read further to see how bad decisions influence us and correlate it with Ariely and my experiment to tempt people to steal with soda and money.