No, they cheat because if they get away with it they will be better off.
They cheat at work probably at the same rate their professional husband cheats because neither works on the marriage.
Yet in researching why people cheat and how they cheat, I've found that, much of the time, cheating actually implies a player is actively engaged in a game and wants to do well, even when the game fails them.
In such situations, players face a choice: They either cheat or stop playing altogether.
Sports is full of veterans in denial, who believe they can cheat the clock long enough to grab one last payday or shot at glory.
They are more likely to lie and cheat if they are in a foreign country rather than at home.
Thus, they felt compelled to cheat else be left in the fray at a competitive disadvantage.
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All those baseball players being denied the Hall of Fame because they used drugs to cheat probably offered themselves the same justification.
Many fishermen cheat because they think the scientists are wrong, or because everyone else is, or because they cannot make a living otherwise.
If Americans are tempted to cheat, they should remember that what is done today is audit bait at least until 2005 and in many cases, much longer.
For example, Mr Ariely finds that people are less likely to cheat if they read the Ten Commandments before doing a test, or if they have to sign a declaration of honesty before submitting their tax return.
If they know someone from a rival school is cheating, they are less likely to cheat.
He also thinks they are more willing to cheat on other people's behalf than their own.
The overwhelming reason most players cheat is because they get stuck.
However, let us humor Mike and take his thoroughly researched (I say this very, very, very lightly) statistical findings at face value to consider another perspective: career women, stay clear of career men because they are more likely to cheat, get divorced and less likely to have kids.
Her sons shot down that argument in elementary school, telling her they'd seen other students cheat without getting caught.
Captcha - which asks users to type in words to prove they are not robots trying to cheat the system - is used on many sites.
Also, former dopers such as rider David Millar and Armstrong's former teammate Jonathan Vaughters, who now runs his own professional team, are working to change the culture which led them all to think they had no choice but to cheat to stand a chance.
In one such experiment, subjects were able to cheat on a math test. (They were given access to the answers.) As expected, there was score inflation among those able to cheat.
Is it really that women are more likely to cheat and be dissatisfied if they work?
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
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As the reported cases show, sometimes folks cheat on their exams, sometimes they fudge their scores, and other times, well, if you can think of a variation, someone has likely done it already.
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He conducts simple experiments to show how people cheat, procrastinate, overvalue objects they made themselves, take free things they don't need, insist upon keeping their financial options open even when it means losing money and otherwise behave contrary to their interests.
They insist that the director didn't just cheat a Latino out of an acting job but the Latino community out of a feel-good story about one of their own who won acclaim for a heroic deed.
They are completely optional and include an easily-accessible cheat sheet to help you learn or remember how to use 'em.
He describes many experiments that show that most people will cheat, at least a little, if they are given the opportunity.
One set of experiments shows that college students are more likely to cheat on a task with financial rewards when they know a confederate from the same university is doing it and getting away with it.
Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.
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