March 26th 2012
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty. How we lie to everyone – especially ourselves. Dan Ariely.
Dan Ariely speaking at TED (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty. How we lie to everyone – especially ourselves. Dan Ariely.2012. ISBN 9780062183590. Another terrific book. His studies about what and why people do what they do are really good. This one is has strong examples that we will all recognize. For any of us, dishonesty is a slippery slope that starts with the smallest of things ( and this behaviour appears to cross all cultures) . The forces that increase dishonesty are:
- Our ability to rationalize
- Conflicts of interest (increase own income)
- Creativity ( types that is)
- One immoral act (slips the slope)
- Being depleted (of resistance) – good lessons for dieters
- Others benefiting from our dishonesty ( love company)
- Watching others behave dishonestly (well he did it)
- Culture that gives examples of dishonesty
To reduce dishonesty skip the ethics class and try to nip it at the time and each place :
- Pledges work
- Signatures
- Moral reminders
- Supervision.
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