Here’s What Dishonesty is Really About
Behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely has spent over ten years researching human dishonesty. What are the different kinds of dishonesty? Why do we tell lies?
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One of the main streams of my research for the last more than ten years has been focusing on dishonesty. And dishonesty is really interesting because it’s not just about dishonesty. It’s actually a phenomenon that captures almost all of the human principles of behavior. It’s about selfishness versus generosity. It’s about us versus other people. It’s about rationalization. It really captures a lot of things. And because of this there are lots of forces that drive dishonesty. But here is one way to start thinking about it. When we grew up we grew up in a social environment and our parents tried to teach us what is acceptable and not acceptable. And in that environment white lies are certainly acceptable, encouraged. And our parents teach us, you know, as somebody who has a visible disab...
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One of the main streams of my research for the last more than ten years has been focusing on dishonesty. And dishonesty is really interesting because it’s not just about dishonesty. It’s actually a phenomenon that captures almost all of the human principles of behavior. It’s about selfishness versus generosity. It’s about us versus other people. It’s about rationalization. It really captures a lot of things. And because of this there are lots of forces that drive dishonesty. But here is one way to start thinking about it. When we grew up we grew up in a social environment and our parents tried to teach us what is acceptable and not acceptable. And in that environment white lies are certainly acceptable, encouraged. And our parents teach us, you know, as somebody who has a visible disab...
