The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely (Author). Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Occasions bestselling writer of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and preserve us trustworthy, in this groundbreaking take a look at the way we behave: The (Trustworthy) Reality About Dishonesty. 

From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ additional-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economic system, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous components 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, however fully human, behaviors. 

Dishonest is widespread, if we are to believe the media reviews that bombard us daily. For example, perpetrators of multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes go away stunned retirees and dealing individuals destitute; crooked accountants cook dinner the books for their corporate employers; and unethical lecturers and principles inflate college students' check scores. Professor of behavioral economics Dan Ariely weighs in on this topic in "The Honest Truth about Dishonesty." As he did in his previous works, Ariely designs a sequence of experiments to check various hypotheses. His aim is to learn extra about why and underneath what situations average women and men are prone to cheat. He additionally discusses the type of measures that could possibly be carried out to cut down on deceitful behavior. Because it turns out, most men and women do not do a cost-profit evaluation and decide, "Since I can commit fraud and get away with it, I will do no matter I would like--embezzle, fudge figures, plagiarize, take issues that are not mine, etc." These of us who have a conscience and wish to be ok with ourselves will in all probability hesitate earlier than committing severe transgressions. 

Dishonesty is complex and could also be related to such factors as our degree of fatigue; our perception of who's watching us; whether or not we are alone or a part of a bunch; how connected we really feel to our deeds; and even how artistic we are. "The Sincere Truth" is a comparatively jargon-free, lighthearted, and humorous have a look at a serious subject. The good news is that we're not all laborious-wired to do the fallacious thing. However, since "most of us need little reminders to maintain ourselves on the correct path," it doesn't damage to make adjustments (resembling rules to cut back conflicts of curiosity) that might reduce the temptation to rationalize our misbehavior. Ariely's conclusions aren't all groundbreaking or even significantly surprising. However, they do provide food for thought and could provoke an enlightening discussion about ethics and human psychology. Every certainly one of us considers himself as honest. But are we really are? Dan Ariely states one locksmith which says that door locks are there to forestall the vast majority to enter doors. 1% of persons are actually honest, 1% is crooked and the remainder of the ninety eight% of people want locks to remind them to be honest. 

The e-book, in its enjoyable approach of writing checks the signs of our own honesty. With exampled assessments it proves that all of us are inclined to cheat. However we are tended to remain honest to our self, so we deceive only a little. I was comfortable to see on the end that the tests have been achieved in different cultures and located that we are all alike, although we think differently. Dan Ariely is a gifted author, this ebook is one other enjoyable to learn on how we people behave irrational.

 The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves 

 Dan Ariely (Author)

304 pages

Harper (June 5, 2012)

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