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“Wide-faced men are going to lie and cheat”

“Wide-faced men are going to lie and cheat” | Science News | Scoop.it

We’ve read about aggressive men with thick necks and wide faces. We often suspect them of being violent thugs. Some, more charitably, might opine they are simply more confident and assertive. Or maybe weight-lifters. New research says they are also likely liars and cheaters. Seriously?

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Income Inequality and Distrust Foster Academic Dishonesty

Income Inequality and Distrust Foster Academic Dishonesty | Science News | Scoop.it

College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these young people cheating? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests one reason: income inequality, which decreases the general trust people have toward each other.

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Why Men Need To Cheat - The Huffington Post

Why Men Need To Cheat - The Huffington Post | Science News | Scoop.it

Monogamy is failing men.
Not only is it failing them, but it's a "socially compelled sexual incarceration" that can lead to a life of anger and contempt, or so says Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester and author of the provocative new book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating (Oxford University Press, $49.99).
Cheating, however, serves men pretty well. An undiscovered affair allows them to keep their relationship and emotional intimacy, and even if they're busted it's a lot easier than admitting that they wanted to screw someone else in the first place, he writes.

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[VIDEO] Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.

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How to Detect Cheating

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A computer program that can detect cheating at chess was recently in the news. The program works by seeing if people play chess far better than their ranking, and more like a computer instead. But cheating at chess is not the only type of cheating that can be detected.

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Team infiltrates paid 'army' of interest posters

You've studied the blogs and the consumer comments online, and you're ready to hit the mall for that special holiday gift. You’re about to make a major investment based on bullet-proof online research -- right? Think again.

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