“I don’t believe we need to evoke evolution. We do stand to gain from being dishonest—if I gave you a situation in which you could only lose from being dishonest no one would be. We have a motivation and there’s no mystery to it. The sad thing we find is that people cheat a lot. The silver lining is that people don’t cheat enough, in another sense: there are lots of opportunities in our studies for people to cheat much more but people don’t take them. There’s this force that stops us from being as dishonest as we can be.”
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