Misbehaving with Richard Thaler
Hidden Brain
00:00
Why You Shouldn't Send Your Kids a Thousand Dollars on a Baseball Game
People report being significantly happier when you give them the vacation. I read covered this last week a with my daughter. And i made a mistake, and it's a mistake i, of all people, shouldn't have made. But i had good reasons, and i was well intentioned. So now, she would have been happy if i had sent her the tickets. For sure they would have gone to the game. But i sent her the thousand dollars, nothing. so i didn't send her the thousand. A ha, ha,. ha, ha, ha.
Transcript
Play full episode
