![]() ![]() Participants in their experiment had to predict an outcome of a fair coin-toss and were rewarded for doing it correctly. The first one is more favorable toward the corrupt view of human nature, whereas the second is more compatible with the good-natured view. They put forward two hypotheses that can explain honest decision when an individual is faced with temptation: (1) the will hypothesis which contends that honesty is a result of active resistance of temptation and therefore brain regions responsible for cognitive control are employed when people are honest (2) the grace hypothesis which contends that for being honest, no additional cognitive control is required. Greene and Paxton (2009) attempted to answer this question by examining neural activity during honest and dishonest decision-making. Because of these counteracting impulses, an irrational pattern of cheating emerges. Having established what general mechanisms underlie decisions about cheating, we can move on to another relevant question – what is the default option when people face an opportunity to cheat? People are governed by two contradictory mechanisms: one that inclines them to exploit opportunities to gain and another that helps them form a sense of their own honesty. Default Behavioral Predispositions: What are we Struggling With? ![]()
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