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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

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From Washington to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, author and behavior economist Dan Ariely explores the question of dishonesty to help us understand why cheating is so prevalent and what we can do about it.

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Many Of Us Are Small-Stakes Cheaters, But Why?

Kick a golf ball back onto the green. Sneak a peek at an opponent's cards in a friendly poker game. Grab a few hundred extra dollars in Monopoly. Duke University professor Dan Ariely studies cheating, and has figured out what drives us to to do it, and how we justify our actions.

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