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About the Editors
DAN ARIELY, author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.
TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines.