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Dan Ariely Economics Life Morality Psychology Spiritual Smarts

Shrinking the fudge factor – when we remind people about morality, they cheat less

Today I gave a speech (a “talk”) that touched on several life principles, one of them, morality’s influence on decision making. Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely author of the book “Predictably Irrational“, created a fascinating social experiment intended to understand how people handle being tempted with cheating. He called it, shrinking the fudge factor. In other […]

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Psychology Research Social Media Twitter

Is it Really About Me? Message Content in Social Awareness Streams

The Abstract as taken from the report: “In this work the authors (Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai of the Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information) examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems [they] call “social awareness streams.” [They] […]