Thursday, March 18, 2010

Daft research? - For once it makes sense to me!

'Environmentally aware consumers are more likely to lie, cheat and be unkind than regular shoppers, a study suggests.
Researchers say that people have a limited stock of goodwill and that being virtuous in one part of life leads to meanness in another. The phenomenon - dubbed ' compensatory ethics' - came to light in a series of experiments carried out by psychologists at the University of Toronto'.


To me, this really sums up human nature. 'Sin will always win in the secular minded.' Hmm 'compensatory ethics,' eh? - I must try to remember that term.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1258306/Show-shoppers-prepared-green--seen-doing-so.html#ixzz0iVXsRogM

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