{"id":4547,"date":"2009-03-17T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:06:36","slug":"dont_tell_your_moms_out-of-town_friends_but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/dont_tell_your_moms_out-of-town_friends_but.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Tell Your Mom&#8217;s Out-Of-Town Friends But . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those counterfeit goods they&#8217;re buying on Canal Street <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/16\/the-moral-costs-of-counterfeiting\/\">may be making them immoral<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The effect on morality, people don&#8217;t anticipate,&#8221; said Prof. Dan Ariely, the author of &#8220;Predictably Irrational,&#8221; who conducted the studies. &#8220;We asked them if wearing fakes would get people to cheat more, they didn&#8217;t think it has an effect.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>In one of his studies, half of the 250 subjects were told that the designer glasses they were wearing were &#8220;real,&#8221; while the other half were told they were wearing &#8220;counterfeits.&#8221; They were told to do a number of tasks that seemed to be related to the glasses, like evaluating scenery. But tucked into the sequence was a math test. Researchers found that 60 percent of those who were wearing &#8220;counterfeit&#8221; glasses cheated, while only 20 percent of those wearing &#8220;real&#8221; glasses cheated.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/counterfeittriangle\/index.htm\">Counterfeit Triangle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those counterfeit goods they&#8217;re buying on Canal Street may be making them immoral: &#8220;The effect on morality, people don&#8217;t anticipate,&#8221; said Prof. Dan Ariely, the author of &#8220;Predictably Irrational,&#8221; who conducted the studies. &#8220;We asked them if wearing fakes would get people to cheat more, they didn&#8217;t think it has an effect.&#8221; . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}