Dr. David DeSteno
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100% of people, when you ask them and you say, if you lied about this, because you're going to be in the room by yourself, if you say you got heads when you didn't, is that morally wrong?
Only time in my life I get unanimous data.
100% of people say, yeah, that's morally wrong.
Well, yeah, wait.
And so then we put them in the room and we say, you know, they know they can decide how they want.
They know most people say you should use the coin.
They say you should use the coin.
Guess what percentage of them?
So we know they, why?
Because they come out and they basically say, oh, I got the easy task and we let them go do that.
We know the coin came up tails because we rigged it.
What percent of people do you think lie to us?
I don't know.
Depending on the study, it's usually like 85%.
85%.
Yeah.
Now, there are situations where we tell them you can't decide.
You must do what the coin tells you.
And there, still about a third of people cheat.
Oh, my goodness.