Quotes About Behavior

New study reveals men like to cuddle. Another study reveals men will say anything to get into bed with a woman.

Our Behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions

Thinking like a Freak may sometimes sound like an exercise in using clever means to get exactly what you want, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if there is one thing we've learned from a lifetime of designing and analyzing incentives, the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency. Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.

The more social science we learn, the more we realize that people, while treasuring their independence, are in fact drawn to herd behavior in almost every aspect of daily life.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

With any problem, it's important to figure out which incentives will actually work, not just what your moral compass tells you should work.

People aren't "good" or "bad." People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated—for good or ill—if only you find the right levers.

la economía como ciencia consiste fundamentalmente en un conjunto de herramientas, más que una cuestión de contenido, ningún tema se halla fuera de su alcance.

There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral.

podría sugerir que la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the "right" thing to do.

People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.

la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.

Steven D. Levitt

Human beings aren't the most candid animals on the planet. We'll often say one thing and do another—or, more precisely, we'll say what we think other people want to hear and then, in private, do what we want.

A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.

Steven D. Levitt

La gente no es «buena» ni «mala». Las personas son personas y responden a incentivos. Casi siempre pueden ser manipuladas —para bien o para mal— si se encuentran las palancas adecuadas.

Steven D. Levitt

As the behavioral sage Daniel Kahneman has written: "[W]e can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Steven D. Levitt

morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work