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The (honest) truth about dishonesty : how we lie to everyone---especially ourselves / Dan Ariely.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper, [2012], ©2012.Description: xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0062183591 (hardback)
  • 0062183613 (paperback)
  • 9780062183590 (hardback)
  • 9780062183613 (paperback)
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Contents:
Why is dishonesty so interesting? -- Testing the simple model of rational crime (SMORC) -- Fun with the fudge factor -- Golf -- Blinded by our own motivations -- Why we blow it when we're tired -- Why wearing fakes makes us cheat more -- Cheating ourselves -- Creativity and dishonesty: we are all storytellers -- Cheating as an infection: how we catch the dishonesty germ -- Collaborative cheating: why two heads aren't necessarily better than one -- A semioptimistic ending: people don't cheat enough!
Summary: The author, a behavioral economist challenges our preconceptions about dishonesty; we all cheat, whether it is copying a paper in the classroom, or white lies on our expense accounts. He explores how unethical behavior works in the personal, professional, and political worlds, and how it affects all of use, even as we think of ourselves as having high moral standards. He explores the question of dishonesty from Washington to Wall Street, and the classroom to the workplace, to examine why cheating is so prevalent and what can be done to prevent it.
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Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle--and inescapable parts of the human condition.

Drawing on original experiments and research, in the vein of Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Survival of the Sickest, Ariely reveals--honestly--what motivates these irrational, but entirely human, behaviors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why is dishonesty so interesting? -- Testing the simple model of rational crime (SMORC) -- Fun with the fudge factor -- Golf -- Blinded by our own motivations -- Why we blow it when we're tired -- Why wearing fakes makes us cheat more -- Cheating ourselves -- Creativity and dishonesty: we are all storytellers -- Cheating as an infection: how we catch the dishonesty germ -- Collaborative cheating: why two heads aren't necessarily better than one -- A semioptimistic ending: people don't cheat enough!

The author, a behavioral economist challenges our preconceptions about dishonesty; we all cheat, whether it is copying a paper in the classroom, or white lies on our expense accounts. He explores how unethical behavior works in the personal, professional, and political worlds, and how it affects all of use, even as we think of ourselves as having high moral standards. He explores the question of dishonesty from Washington to Wall Street, and the classroom to the workplace, to examine why cheating is so prevalent and what can be done to prevent it.

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