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Introduction Why Is Dishonesty So Interesting? | |
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From Enron to our own misbehaviors | |
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A fascination with cheating | |
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Becker's parking problem and the birth of rational crime | |
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Elderly volunteers and petty thieves | |
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"Why behavioral economics and dishonesty? | |
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Testing the Simple Model of Rational Crime (SMORC) | |
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Get rich cheating | |
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Tempting people to cheat, the measure of dishonesty | |
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What we know versus what we think we know about dishonesty | |
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Cheating when we can't get caught | |
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Market vendors, cab drivers, and cheating the blind | |
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Fishing and tall tales | |
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Striking a balance between truth and cheating | |
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Fun with the Fudge Factor | |
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Why some things are easier to steal than others | |
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How companies pave the way for dishonesty | |
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Token dishonesty | |
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How pledges, commandments, honor codes, and paying with cash can support honesty | |
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But lock your doors just the same | |
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And a bit about religion, the IRS, and insurance companies | |
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Golf | |
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Man versus himself | |
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A four-inch lie | |
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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to take the mulligan | |
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Schr�dinger's scorecard. | |
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Blinded by Our Own Motivations | |
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Craze lines, tattoos, and how conflicts of interest distort our perception | |
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How favors affect our choices | |
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Why full disclosure and other policies aren't fully effective | |
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Imagining less conflicted compensation | |
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Disclosure and regulation are the answers-or not. | |
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Why We Blow It When We're Tired | |
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Why we don't binge in the morning | |
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Willpower: another limited resource | |
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Judgment on an empty stomach | |
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How flexing our cognitive and moral muscles can make us more dishonest | |
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Self-depletion and a rational theory of temptation | |
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Why Wearing Fakes Makes Us Cheat More | |
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The secret language of shoes | |
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From ermine to Armani and the importance of signaling | |
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Do knockoffs knock down our standards of honesty? | |
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Can gateway fibs lead to monster lies? | |
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When "what the hell" wreaks havoc | |
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There's no such thing as one little white lie | |
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Halting the downward spiral | |
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Cheating Ourselves | |
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Claws and peacock tails | |
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When answer keys tell us what we already knew | |
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Overly optimistic IQ scores | |
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The Center for Advanced Hindsight | |
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Being Kubrick | |
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War heroes and sports heroes who let us down | |
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Helping ourselves to a better self-image | |
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Creativity and Dishonesty: We Are All Storytellers | |
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The tales we tell ourselves and how we create stories we can believe | |
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Why creative people are better liars | |
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Redrawing the lines until we see what we want | |
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When irritation spurs us onward | |
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How thinking creatively can get us into trouble | |
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Cheating as an Infection: How We Catch the Dishonesty Germ | |
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Catching the cheating bug | |
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One bad apple really does spoil the barrel (unless that apple goes to the University of Pittsburgh) | |
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How ambiguous rules + group dynamics = cultures of cheating | |
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A possible road to ethical health | |
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Collaborative Cheating: Why Two Heads Aren't Necessarily Better than One | |
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Lessons from an ambiguous boss | |
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All eyes are on you: observation and cheating | |
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Working together to cheat more? | |
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Or keeping one another in line | |
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Cheating charitably | |
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Building trust and taking liberties | |
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Playing well with others | |
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A Semioptimistic Ending: People Don't Cheat Enough! | |
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Cheer up! Why we should not be too depressed by this book | |
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True crime | |
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Cultural differences in dishonesty | |
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Politicians or bankers, who cheats more? | |
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How can we improve our moral health? | |
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Thanks | |
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List of Collaborators | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography and Additional Readings | |
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Index | |