The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

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<p>Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Upside of Irrationality </em>and <em>Predictably Irrational</em>, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: <em>The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty</em>.</p><p>From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle—and inescapable parts of the human condition.</p><p>Drawing on original experiments and research, in the vein of <em>Freakonomics</em>, <em>The Tipping Point</em>, and <em>Survival of the Sickest</em>, Ariely reveals—honestly—what motivates these irrational, but entirely human, behaviors.</p>