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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?
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2 .As the day wears on, we tend to get weary.
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3 .Now a study finds that as a result we may be more likely to cheat or lie in the afternoon than in the morning.
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4 .But only if we're usually ethical to begin with.
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5 .Scientists showed volunteers patterns of dots on a computer and asked them to tell which side of the screen contained more dots, the right or left.
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6 .And here's the kicker: the researchers gave the subjects a higher reward if they selected the right side, regardless of whether it was incorrect or not.
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7 .And with this incentive, subjects were more likely to cheat in the afternoon than in the morning.
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8 .In another experiment the scientists showed the subjects fragments of words, and asked them to complete the word.
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9 .For example, they might see the last three letters, R, A, L, of a five-letter word.
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10 .And surprisingly in the morning the participants tended come up with the word "moral" whereas in the afternoon the word of choice was "coral."
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11 .The researchers also found that people who tend to cheat regularly were just as likely to do so in the morning as in the afternoon.
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12 .It was only the more ethical folks who suffered lapses as the day wore on.
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13 .So the early bird gets the worm…and the truth.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.
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