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The reality of the society that we’re in is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they are working long hard hours at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like.
Nigel Marsh

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What makes us cheat?
Interesting experiments on what influences people’s tendency to cheat.

Freedom of choice = Happiness ?

I grew up thinking freedom of choice is an unequivocally good thing, that happiness is correlated with the amount of choice we have: the more freedom, the happier, right?

But what if that was not true?

Research into the correlation between freedom of choice and happiness yields surprising results as shown in these two videos.


Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib

Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.

Notes

For those of you who are interested there’s a very good German movie inspired by the experiment called Das Experiment.