Employees in two distinctly unsavory businesses — “cybersquatting” (registering misleading domain names) and online pornography — are, on average, twice as likely to be trustworthy as a group of graduate and undergraduate social-science students, according to a study by Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto and John Morgan of the University of California Berkeley that involved a series of experiments. Moreover, in a trust game, people in those industries were more than 50% more likely to trust, and they lied one-third less than the students did. Past research has suggested that unsavory industries attract liars and cheats, but Hoffman and Morgan argue that semi-lawless businesses require higher levels of interpersonal trust and even altruism for success.Read more in HBR.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
HBR Daily Stat: People in Creepy Businesses Might Be Nicer Than You Are
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Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were
"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .
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Even women who earn overwhelmingly positive performance reviews are told that they have ‘personality flaws,’ a new study finds. The double...
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"Why I don’t talk about race with White people." Read more in Medium .
