Liar, Liar, Liar

Hidden Brain

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We all lie. But what separates the average person from the infamous cheaters we see on the news? Dan Ariely says we like to think it's character — but in his research he's found it's more often opportunity. Dan Ariely is a professor at Duke University and the author of the book, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves. We spoke to him in March 2017.

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0:00.0	When we think about dishonesty, we mostly think about the big stuff.
0:04.1	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
0:09.2	Where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.
0:16.6	Thousands of people...
0:18.1	I said it for longer than seven years. I have never doped.
0:21.1	The answer is I did not send that tweet. My system was hacked. I was pranked. It was a fairly...
0:26.3	He goes, hey, I know a way that we can both make a little bit of money. You give me information.
0:32.2	I'm going to trade on it. I will split it three ways.
0:35.9	This kind of dishonesty seems so blatant. So wrong.
0:39.9	And you said to yourself, wow, I could have never done this.
0:43.3	Like this is a different kind of a person. That's not me. I can't possibly be like that person.
0:48.3	This is Dan Arieli, researcher and author of the book, The Honest Truth About Disonesty.
0:53.8	How we lie to everyone, especially ourselves.
0:57.8	Dan says the truth about dishonesty might surprise you.
1:00.7	What separates honest people from not honest people is not necessarily character.
1:06.6	It's opportunity.
1:08.8	We'll also talk about Dan's personal life and what a life threatening injury taught him about deception and self deception.
1:16.2	It's kind of embarrassing. Do we have to talk about that? Can we talk about something else?
1:29.9	Dan Arieli is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University.
1:35.4	He is the author of the book The Honest Truth About Disonesty.
1:40.1	Dan, welcome to Hidden Brain.
1:42.5	My pleasure. So nice to be here.
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