Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

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Really cool article I think you guys would like. There is also an 18 minute radio short you can listen to on the subject as well.

Over the past decade or so, news stories about unethical behavior have been a regular feature on TV, a long, discouraging parade of misdeeds marching across our screens. And in the face of these scandals, psychologists and economists have been slowly reworking how they think about the cause of unethical behavior.
In general, when we think about bad behavior, we think about it being tied to character: Bad people do bad things. But that model, researchers say, is profoundly inadequate.


https://www.npr.org/2012/05/01/151764534/psychology-of-fraud-why-good-people-do-bad-things


 
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