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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
What does civic honesty look like around the world?
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
What does civic honesty look like around the world?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Cohn and colleagues who examined the trade-off between honesty and self-interest in 355 cities spanning 40 countries. They turned in more than 17,000 lost wallets containing various amounts of money. And they found that contrary to what we might expect, people were more likely to return wallets that contained larger amounts of money. Apparently the shame of viewing oneself as a thief played a role in this behaviour.
Full citation:
Cohn A, Maréchal MA, Tannenbaum D, Zünd CL. Civic honesty around the globe. Science. 2019 Jul 5;365(6448):70-3.
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