Cheating

I watched an interesting video here on the subject of cheating, why and when we think it's okay, and what the color of your shirt has to do with whether you're likely to cheat. The video's about fifteen minutes long, and the speaker's decent.

If you want the Cliff's Notes version, its: we cheat when we want an advantage; we cheat up to the point where we can still like what we see in the mirror; we cheat more when we don't think that what we're cheating for is all that valuable; we cheat more when we think people just like us cheat, and less when we think people not like us cheat. Whether someone's watching or not doesn't seem to affect whether we cheat, but being reminded of honor codes and religious strictures -- even when there's no 'honor code' in existence, or when you don't subscribe to a particular morality -- makes it less likely.

There's also a brief commentary about whether it's better to yank off the BandAid or peel it slowly.