Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Daily Stat from Harvard Business Review

August 4, 2015
 
 

When It Comes to Lying, We’re All One


Given the opportunity to secretly lie in order to win a beautifully wrapped Lindt Lindor chocolate truffle, only 14% of more than 1,000 research participants did so, a proportion that was consistent across 16 countries ranging from Austria to India to Indonesia to Turkey to the U.S., says a team of researchers led by David Pascual-Ezama of Universidad Complutense Madrid in Spain. Although these countries’ civic institutions vary widely in corruption levels, their citizens are basically alike in their low propensity to lie, the findings suggest.



 

 

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