Money may not be everything, but it's probably more than you think. In fact, the effects of moolah on the mind are so strong that money can make you a bad person without realizing it.
That's the conclusion drawn by new research from Maryam Kouchaki at Harvard University and Kristin Smith-Crowe of the University of Utah. In four separate studies, they found that people who were first primed with money-related words or images were more likely to make unethical decisions or lie than those who had seen neutral ones.
Thoughts about money made the study's participants more likely to agree to things like hiring a candidate because he had confidential information that could benefit the company, or stealing a ream of paper from their employer for their home printer.
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