By Tarik El Barakah
Morocco World News
Rabat, June 19, 2013
A new study published in the journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, revealed that the more money one gets the less ethical he or she becomes.
The research involved more than 300 students majoring in business-related degrees and conducted experiments which resulted in a significant deduction: Money truly corrupts!
When people are made to think about situations that have a correlation with money, they show more tendency to lie in order to earn extra benefits and an increase in unethical intentions.
In one experiment, a number of participants in the study were told that they could either lie to a person and earn 5 dollars or stick with the truth and earn only 2 dollars. The result was that most of the students lied in order to make extra money.
Previous studies on the same subject argued that not all the rich people are all bad. But being well off has psychological features that lead to these results which are described to be “natural effects.”
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