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Exposure To Money Triggers Unethical Decisions

25/06/2013

A set of studies finds that thinking about money makes you more likely to fudge the rules. Uh oh. Money corrupts. It’s (...)
A set of studies finds that thinking about money makes you more likely to fudge the rules. Uh oh. Money corrupts. It’s behind almost all political and corporate scandals. It wars. And it can make good people do very bad things. A new study published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes takes the association between money and corruption even further, hypothesizing--and then proving--that mere exposure to money (looking at money-related images and words) can trigger behavior. "My workers and I are interested in why do good people, normal people sometimes engage in behavior," says Kristin Smith-Crowe, one of the study’s authors. "It may not be financial incentive or greed. It could just be the case that the idea of money has an influence on our decisions and our behavior."Read Full Story    
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