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This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?

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As the day wears on, we tend to get weary.

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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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But only if we're usually ethical to begin with.

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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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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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And with this incentive, subjects were more likely to cheat in the afternoon than in the morning.

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In another experiment the scientists showed the subjects fragments of words, and asked them to complete the word.

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For example, they might see the last three letters, R, A, L, of a five-letter word.

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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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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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It was only the more ethical folks who suffered lapses as the day wore on.

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So the early bird gets the worm…and the truth.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.

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