The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves

reducing amount of, 39–51, 248–54

society’s means for dealing with, 4–5

summary of forces that shape (figure), 245

when traveling, 183n

see also cheating

dissertation proposals and defenses, 101

distance factors, 238

in golf, 58–59

stealing Coca-Cola vs. money and, 32–33

token experiment and, 33–34

doctors:

consulting for or investing in drug companies, 82, 93

continuity of care and, 228–29

lecturing about drugs, 81

pharma reps and, 78–82

treating or testing patients with equipment that they own, 92–94

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 234

dots task:

conflict of interest and, 129

description of, 127–29

link between creativity and dishonesty and, 171–72, 185–86

what-the-hell effect and, 129–31

downloads, illegal, 137–39

dressing above one’s station, 120–21

Ebbers, Bernie, 13

ego depletion, 100–116, 238, 249

basic idea behind, 101

cheating and, 104–6

in everyday life, 112–16

removing oneself from tempting situations and, 108–11, 115–16

of Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones, 103

sometimes succumbing to temptation and, 114–15

sudden deaths among students’ grandmothers at exam time and, 106–8

ego motivation, 27

England, cheating in, 242

Enron, 1–3, 192, 207, 215, 234

essay mills, 210–13

exams, sudden deaths among students’ grandmothers and, 106–8

exhaustion, 249

consumption of junk food and, 97–98

judges’ parole rulings and, 102–3

see also ego depletion

experimental data, exclusion of, 86–88

expert witnesses, 85–86

explanations, logical-sounding, creation of, 163–65

external signaling, 120–22

dressing above one’s station and, 120–21

fake products and, 121–22

failures, tendency to turn blind eye to, 151