{"id":15171,"date":"2010-01-14T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15171"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:29:07","slug":"why-do-people-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/14\/why-do-people-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Cheat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Ariely, in this great talk, describes some of his surprising research on cheating.<\/p>\n<p>He finds that almost everyone will cheat, but only a little bit.\u00a0 People are less likely to steal money, than other things (e.g., office supplies).\u00a0 &#8220;Priming&#8221; works, too: If people are reminded to be moral, they are less likely to cheat.<\/p>\n<p>If we see people we think are like us cheat, we are more likely to cheat than we would have otherwise (but we have the opposite reaction to cheaters that we see as not like us).\u00a0 Ariely then applies his findings to the Enron scandal.<\/p>\n<p>A fun and fascinating 16 and a half minutes:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DanAriely_2009-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DanAriely-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=487&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code;year=2009;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=what_makes_us_happy;theme=speaking_at_ted2009;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TED2009;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Ariely, in this great talk, describes some of his surprising research on cheating. He finds that almost everyone will cheat, but only a little bit.\u00a0 People are less likely to steal money, than other things (e.g., office supplies).\u00a0 &#8220;Priming&#8221; works, too: If people are reminded to be moral, they are less likely to cheat. 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