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From the Ted Talk by Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code

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Think about the following itnioutin. How bad would you feel about taking a peicnl from work home, croapemd to how bad would you feel about taking 10 cents from a petty cash box? These things feel very diflnreefty. Would being a step removed from cash for a few seconds by being paid by token make a difference? Our subjects doubled their ceihatng. I'll tell you what I think about this and the soctk market in a minute. But this did not solve the big problem I had with Enron yet, because in Enron, there's also a saicol element. People see each other behaving. In fact, every day when we open the news we see examples of people cheating. What does this cause us?

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Think about the following _________. How bad would you feel about taking a ______ from work home, ________ to how bad would you feel about taking 10 cents from a petty cash box? These things feel very ___________. Would being a step removed from cash for a few seconds by being paid by token make a difference? Our subjects doubled their ________. I'll tell you what I think about this and the _____ market in a minute. But this did not solve the big problem I had with Enron yet, because in Enron, there's also a ______ element. People see each other behaving. In fact, every day when we open the news we see examples of people cheating. What does this cause us?

Solution


  1. differently
  2. stock
  3. compared
  4. cheating
  5. intuition
  6. pencil
  7. social

Original Text


Think about the following intuition. How bad would you feel about taking a pencil from work home, compared to how bad would you feel about taking 10 cents from a petty cash box? These things feel very differently. Would being a step removed from cash for a few seconds by being paid by token make a difference? Our subjects doubled their cheating. I'll tell you what I think about this and the stock market in a minute. But this did not solve the big problem I had with Enron yet, because in Enron, there's also a social element. People see each other behaving. In fact, every day when we open the news we see examples of people cheating. What does this cause us?

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Important Words


  1. bad
  2. behaving
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  6. cents
  7. cheating
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  37. work