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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Daisy Yuhas. Got a minute?
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2 .Everybody lies. But for the most part, we still see ourselves as good, honest people.
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3 .So, why do we do it and are we all just kidding ourselves?
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4 ."So, is lying or being dishonest irrational?
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5 .Sometimes. Sometimes not."
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6 .Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, at Duke Univeristy, studies irrational behavior.
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7 .In recent years, he has found himself drawn to mendacity, prevarication, fabrication—you know, lying.
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8 .Now Ariely has teamed up with documentarian Yael Melamede to create a film called "(Dis)Honesty."
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9 .Through a series of interviews, the movie presents real world cases of cheating, corruption and little white lies alongside Ariely's scientific findings.
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10 .In the process, it becomes clear that the differences between serious fraud and a minor fib may be less significant than we want to believe.
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11 ."Originally, we were going to call the movie 'Slippery Slope,'
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12 .because so many people basically started doing something, rationalized, took another step, another step…”
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13 .Our knack for explaining and reinterpreting our actions allows us to feel like we are still basically honest, no matter how far we stray from our values.
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14 .But just because we can rationalize our dishonesty does not mean we're acting rationally.
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15 .Fudging the facts might, for example, get you through one tricky situation, but the repercussions may make your life harder later on.
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16 ."That"s not a rational path."
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17 .So the next time you're offered what seems like an easy way out by lying, consider that you could just be lying to yourself.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Daisy Yuhas.
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