Sunday, March 22, 2009

Talk by Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal

This speech by Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal has amazing insights . Refer the site http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html
And his book on Predictive Irrational http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=131

About cheating he summarises 
- A lot of people cheat and they cheat by less by little bit.
- when u remind people of morality they cheat less.
- when we get bigger distance from cheating from the object ( say money ) , People cheat more .
-  And when people see cheating around them as part of in group cheating increases

And finally he mentions that we need to test intuitions .