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What Do You Do When Everyone Is Cheating?
In their book The Baseball Codes, authors Jason Turbow and Michael Duca share a story from the world of baseball that shows how widely-accepted cheating ...
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How Our Standards Erode
Integrity, whether at work or at home, is not the sort of thing you work on every now and then. You don't set aside one day a month to work on your ...
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Author Michael Crichton on the Power of False Information
In 1998, Michael Crichton, author of the best-seller Jurassic Park, wrote a book entitled State of Fear, a fictional look at a global disaster caused ...
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Research on Honesty and Deceit
In 2008, New York Magazine ran a comprehensive article about research concerning kids and lying. In one study researchers gathered a group of children ...
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Why We Lie
Bella DePaulo, a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in studying forms of human deception, asked college ...
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Man Puts Hope in Counterfeit Money
Have you ever had high hopes for something and then seen those hopes crumble to pieces? It happened to one man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His story ...
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Lying Takes More Brain Energy
A study at Temple University School of Medicine found that lying takes more brain energy than telling the truth. Participants were divided into two groups. ...
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Phantom Exemptions Show the Prevalence of Cheating
Freakonomics is a fascinating book by economist Steven Levitt that turns conventional wisdom on its head. On the subject of cheating, Levitt calls it ...
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Donald Miller Realizes the Cost of a Lie
I lived for a time with my friend and mentor John MacMurray, where the first rule is to always tell the truth. John and I were sitting in the family room ...
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The Benefits of a Small Community
According to economist Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, being part of a community where others know us does influence behavior. The proof is in ...
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