“The majority of dishonesty is caused by rationalisation rather than crime” (Image: Gabriela Hasbun/Redux/Eyevine)
We are all prone to cheating – but our everyday dishonesty is Little League compared with the bankers and financiers who can do it on an epic scale. And because their dishonesty reverberates globally, they especially need to heed lessons from the psychology of cheating, behavioural economist Dan Ariely tells Graham Lawton
You’ve written bestsellers about irrationality. Why does it interest you?
I care about the mistakes people make for two reasons. The first is when people violate standard economic theory – because a lot of our…
