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Abstract dishonesty experiment found identical cheating rates across all countries
“Then Francesca Gino, my friend, said, ah, come to Italy. We'll show you what the Italians can do. The Italians cheated just the same. We tried Turkey. We tried South Africa, Kenya, Germany, Sweden. We tried Portugal. We tried the UK. We tried Canada because th…”
Recruiters secretly prefer hiring candidates who will cheat for the company
“We gave MBAs resumes of potential job candidates. And in those resumes, those people were either told, said that they were, it was said about them that they were either dishonest in their personal lives, like to the significant other. They were dishonest at wo…”
Shaper scale users lost weight while standard scale users gained it
“So we just finished a large study. Some people got the regular scale and those people gained a little bit of weight every month. And some people got our scale and they lost 0.7% of their body weight every month for five months. The people with the regular scal…”
People never adapt to the misery of commuting, Kahneman's research shows
“One of the things that they show is commuting is a really miserable thing to do and people don't get used to it.”
Most people experience peak productivity during a two-hour morning window
“One of the things we know, again, is that people are productive in about the first two hours of the day. Almost everybody is productive for the 1:02 hours of the day. Not when you wake up, but kind of eight to 10, nine to 11. And then we, ah, ah, have a lull, …”