The Value of Believing in Free Will Increases Cheating

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i think that anybody who is trained in this stuff takes these studies and claims as as sort of a dent in getting to the truth, rightli? I mean, i'm setting aside just implicit incompatible asm that that this assumes a, that's not sexed up, but it's a pretty sweeping claim, you know. And so they'll say a you know, socrates is a man. All men are mortala. Free will makes people cheat, you know, whatever, whatever. That's not how scientific findings should be treated. They can't form the basis of a logical argument like that because when you're valuating the truth of these scientific claims, you have to take

David and Tamler return after an end of summer hiatus to finally talk about the ethics of deception….eventually. But first they break down a recent article in the journal Science documenting an attempt to replicate 100 recent psychology experiments. What does it mean that just over 1/3 of the studies were successfully replicated? Is social psychology in crisis or is this just how science works? Will David somehow try to pin the blame on philosophers?

Plus--a brief and almost certainly regrettable foray into the Ashley Madison hack, the neuroscience of lying to your kids about Santa, and we announce a new way to contact us to help celebrate our 75th anniversary.

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The Bayesian Reproducibility Project post by Alexander Etz [alexanderetz.com]
Harris, S. (2013). Lying. Four Elephants Press. Buy on Amazon
Bok, S. (2011) Lying: Moral choice in public and private life. Vintage, 2011. Buy on Amazon
Santa on the Brain by Kelly Lambert [nytimes.com]
James Randi (aka "The Amazing Randi") [wikipedia.org]
An Honest Liar [anhonestliar.com] (Available on Netflix in the U.S.)
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty [amazon.com affiliate link]
(Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies [thedishonestyproject.com]
Exit Through the Gift Shop [wikipedia.org]
F for Fake [imdb.com]