Browsing Archive: October, 2009

You're a cheater - I can tell by your sweatshirt

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Saturday, October 17, 2009,
Why do people cheat? 

You might guess that it is a consideration of the potential gain and the potential risk (of being caught). 

In this video, Dan Ariely, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics, speaks about his surprising findings on why people cheat- who does it and when. 


His findings would suggest that rather than personal gain, and rather than level of risk, a large factor on whether people cheat are the norms of the group.  In part of the video above, he relates an exper...
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Does the word "Ethics" turn you off?

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Monday, October 5, 2009,
Chris McDonald, Professor of philosophy and ethics and blogger at The Business Ethics Blog, says that his blog deals with business ethics and includes "questions of good and bad outcomes, right and wrong behaviours, as well as questions of character." 

He notes that it is sometimes hard to have conversations with people about ethics.  He attributes the difficulty to three things:
  1. Discomfort or unfamiliarity with how to talk about ethics. 
  2. Misunderstanding about what ethics encompasses. ...

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