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129. Why Do We Cheat, and Why Shouldn’t We?

No Stupid Questions

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Do You Want to Have a Donut Every Day at Three O'Clock?

There's been a little bit of research suggesting that, for example, when you ask somebody not in the realm of cheating, but like in a more typical impulsivity question, do you want to have a healthy snack or an unhealthy snack? If you ask people to make a one off decision very frequently, they choose the unhealthy snack. And is there evidence that this changes behavior? There is, not a lot of it, I will say,. But there are many people where when the framing changes from just this once to forever, they would choose the healthier pattern. They would choose the more honest pattern.

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