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9/12/2012 04:45:18 pm
Well, what is said at the end of the article is true. People do tend to do things if they see other people doing the same thing and getting away with it. It's that, "If they can do it, then I can do it too" kind of thinking that causes people to want to do something whether it be cheating, stealing or hurting someone.
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Tyshun Lockhart
10/31/2012 05:57:31 am
I think people shouldnt cheat at. cheaating will not get you any where in life.If Its a Relationship Or cheating on some one home work. i think its just not right.
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Mariah
9/12/2012 04:53:37 pm
People Consciously Cheat, They Dont Do It With Out Weighing There Consequences. Its A Totally Diffrent Scenario When It Comes To People && Lying. Even Though When You Cheat That Basically Is Lying In A Way....
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9/12/2012 05:52:18 pm
wow! i found this article to be very interesting.
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Laurian Lackey
9/16/2012 08:30:45 am
The part of this article that I found to be most interesting "We want to view ourselves as honest, wonderful people and when we cheat ... as long as we cheat just a little bit, we can still view ourselves as good people, but once we start cheating too much ... we can't view ourselves as good people and therefore we stop. So this model of trying to balance the ability to view ourselves as good people on one hand and the ability to cheat on the other hand predicts that people will cheat a little bit and they will still feel good about themselves. ... That's what we see across many, many experiments." I thought this was interesting because its true. When we only cheat a little bit we still call ourself a good person,but if we start to cheat a lot,we take a step back from cheating as much so that we can still call ourselves a good person.
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Karen Chavez
9/17/2012 02:24:02 pm
I found this particular article rather interesting, the many different views and ways of 'cheating a little' is something I would've never noticed. People do cheat, all the time, but right to the point where you can't be called bad person, just like people call small lies 'white lies'. Just to make it sound innocent, and nonremoursful. I think people feel more challenged and feel the need to cheat more, when money isn't involved just to be able to feel the satisfaction that,"Oh I did exceptionally well, and it wasn't for money, I did well because of me" type of feeling. We like to brag and exaggerate, what better way than to have that reason attached. I absolutely loved The Broken Glass theory of cheating, it's so true, and it's so weird how that creeps up and happens. I really enjoyed this article and I can't wait to read another one.
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Simone McCall
9/17/2012 04:37:55 pm
While listening to this article, I found the professor's point of veiw very intriguing. This part interested me the most:
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Travis Duke
9/17/2012 05:02:30 pm
I think the part I found most interesting and most relatable was when Ariely talks about how we try to rationalize our actions in order to make them compatible with the feelings we have about ourselves. As Ariely stated we want to view ourselves as good people and therefore when we do cheat, whether on a test, in a relationship, or on some kind of bet, we tend to say things to ourselves such as, "well it's ok because..." and eventually we make ourselves believe the rationalization to the point where it is almost truly how we feel and what we believe. Often times we trick ourselves to the point where if someone else were to point out the wrong doing and attempt to convince us otherwise we become defensive and combative and try to bring that person over to our side of thinking.
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Rachel Evans
9/17/2012 07:52:56 pm
This was an amusing article to me. Seeing how easy it is for people to lie, cheat, or steal is, for lack of better words, disturbing. Yes, I know we all do it sometimes, but not showing any remorse for it, I believe, shows how much respect we have for ourselves. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what gets me the most.
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Marisol Blankenship
9/18/2012 04:21:58 am
This article very much relates to what people do in everyday life.
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ariana
9/18/2012 06:42:42 am
This article was interesting and very correct. I feel as if everyone cheats, even without being aware. For some people it can be a force of habit. Another reason people may cheat is because they feel it is the "easy way out".The mind thinks that it is helpful not thinking of the consequences if they get caught or make things worst.
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Emmanuel Slade
9/18/2012 09:51:32 am
I agree with the article that when people lie and cheat that it is a cost and benifit choice. When people do these things, I think it shows that there choice proves to be benifial to them. I have had a personal experience with lying and in some situations I thought it would help and it did and it did not help in most cases.
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9/19/2012 03:04:54 am
When the article says people decide to cheat with a cost and benefit decision, I believe it is correct. People only care about what their receiving out of the whole situation. If it doesn't benefit them in any way, they won't participate in that particular action. However, I do not agree with what's acceptable in society decision. People decide what to do or not because It's good or bar In socIety they choose based off of there beIng something in it for them. For example, criminals could care less about what's good in society or not. Just like the experiment, people were awarded with money at the end of an experiment that they believed nobody found out about them lying. I also believe this type of decision making is based off your own morals and values.
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Matt Turner
9/19/2012 02:49:10 pm
I absolutely agree with this article. Everyone lies - whether it's a little white, purple, blue, or green lie, it doesn't matter because we all do it. I also found the part when they explained how people lie more heavily about the unimportant things, which I find VERY true. hence the saying "you lie about the most dumbest things!" - the line my mother uses on me majority of the time.
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Kevin Cruz
9/19/2012 07:21:00 pm
I believe what is said at the end has some truth. People do some things they generally might not do just because they see somebody else do it and get away from it. This causes the urge to do it and its alot easier to do so. So people think " hey why not? they got away with it"
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Jahnisha White
10/31/2012 06:41:47 am
I do agree with this article because everyone lies even if it is a very small lie.people lie more about small things more than they do big things and half of the time they don't realize that they are lieng.I believe a small lie can be as big as a big lie .
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diamond hall
12/3/2012 03:51:19 am
I do believe that a lot of people lie every day. Even if its a little white lie. people take the truth and turn it into a lie not even knowing. just to make things to sound better... I believe people lies at least 2 or 3 times a day. Most of the time its with their friends in school. Cheating on the other hand is very common to . when something such as a test is hard the people feel the need to look at a paper with the answers on it. Its a natural reaction. EVERYONE DOES IT !! ..... EVEN YOU :)
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Myles Johnson
12/10/2013 08:09:45 am
Of course everybody lies, cheats, and steals, but the more blatant and direct the action is,the less likely one is to do so. And honestly, if people just listened to their inner morals, the world would be a much more trustworthy place. When the little voice in your head preaches and goes on about how what you're about to do is wrong, all you have to do is listen to it. As a result, you find yourself doing the right thing ALL THE TIME, as the book explains. But then again, without little lies and cheats, where would we be today? The foundation of history has been built off of falsehoods, so to unravel the small-time practice of lying would ultimately be hurtful to the generations to come. For example, in school, I'm pretty sure everyone has taken an open opportunity to dishonestly gain a few points on 'that short quiz that you take every other day'. And so in summation, those small lies built your future, your life, and potential for anything else to come in life. Lying is bad, but it exists for a reason.
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Julian Herbert
12/11/2013 09:10:01 am
I do believe that everybody lies and cheats, but the extent to which people do so differs among everybody. As we learned in psychology some people have less morals than others, like psychopaths, so they tend to lie and cheat at greater extremes than a normal person who just tells a little white lie. Nonetheless, lying is lying, cheating is cheating, and everybody does it.
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Blossom Onunekwu
12/14/2013 06:44:03 am
Yep, I'm a cheater, guilty as charged. I could be grouped in the category of people that cheat a little as opposed to the minuscule amount that cheats a lot, but it still is unethical. This article opened my eyes: cheating is extremely prevalent in classes where teachers are just doing a terrible job of teaching. It's similar to the example described in the passage where the teacher checks his or her phone in the middle of delivering instructions, and the amount of cheating elevates. I used to have this mentality that, if a teacher is giving me a "crapload" of work and ALSO expects me to teach myself (self LEARN, not self study), best believe I'm going to cheat every way I can and not feel any type of remorse because it's their fault! The teachers aren't teaching, so why should a student act like a student and not like a cheater? Anyway, it's a pretty shrewd way of thinking, and I rarely resort to cheating to get work done, but if it's either cheating or staying up losing beauty sleep and health to finish a homework assignment that I DON'T know how to do at all, best believe.
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Rachel Holbrook
12/15/2013 05:04:40 am
I find this so interesting because, well, it's TRUE. We all cheat, I'm sure, even you Lackey. Don't try to hide it (haha). Honestly, we do, and this just proves that though we cheat, we try to rationalize it. We weigh out our odds, find excuses that make it seem okay, and go for it. Isn't that funny? It's like "wow, other people do that, too?" because let's face it; we all do.
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Ciera Hutchins
12/15/2013 11:33:53 am
The fact that we are all not perfect and lie, cheat, steal, etc. is 100% true. However, the tendency to do so depends on other factors than simple benefit and risk. It depends on a personal morality and how much your conscious will haunt you for it. The example of the math quiz in the article, is something that I would not have lied about. Two dollars is not worth the guilt I would feel for lying about it. However, I know I am not perfect and in some cases I know I would lie, as my conscious is not invincible. Most of my views on this topic come from within my faith, and I try each and every day to overcome temptations. Every one lies, cheats, steals, etc. It just depends on how you approach situations.
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Courtney Brown
12/15/2013 12:55:23 pm
Everybody lies, everybody cheats, and everybody steals. But many of us do not do it to a major degree that it will harm people round us. We all want to tell people we would never lie to them and by saying that er are telling them one of the biggest lies of them all. Because there is not person that is 100% honest with others or themselves. You lie to youself if you see your teacher left out a bag of candy and you know your not suppose to take any but you may tell yourself he left it out for a reason. Or what he does not know wont hurt him. But you know even though its a small little crime your still stealing, because your taking something that is not rightfully yours.
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Hassan Hassen
12/15/2013 03:58:44 pm
You may lie to protect someones feelings and you might lie to yourself. There are thresholds on levels of lying, cheating, and stealing. Once you pass a certain limit, you have "reached a point of no return." Does the cost out way the benefits? This is a question that must be asked before doing something that is deemed to be a dishonest act. In our society today it's much easier to lie to people rather than telling them the truth. This can save us the time and hassle of telling them the actual truth.
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Edima Udom
12/15/2013 05:07:25 pm
From an evolutionary standpoint everything we do goes back to one thing which is survival. This is why the benefit exceeds cost theory is true. Everything we do is to see how much we can gain and increase our chances of survival even if it means lying, stealing, or cheating. You look at a persons test because getting that a good grade exceeds the cost of getting caught. We have a natural instinct to survive which is why we do what we do, even if that means doing something morally wrong.
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