Author: Dan Ariely
Title: The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty:
How we Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
Description: Ariely
is a psychologist who has conducted many (slightly) varying experiments about
the conditions under which people will be dishonest. Here he reports his
findings in an accessible style in a book designed to give laypersons insight
into their behavior and that of others.
Writing style: Blessedly free of academic jargon, thank
goodness, but the endless variations on basically the same experiment got
really old.
Audience: Nonfiction
readers, especially those with an interest in psychology or human behavior.
Major ideas: Certain
circumstances make people much more vulnerable to the temptation to be
deceitful, while other situations reinforce the tendency to be honest.
Wrap-up: The lack
of variation in the basic setup of the experiment made the book lose steam by
about halfway through. 3/5*
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