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Religious Canadians bend morals for the almighty buck: study
BY MISTY HARRIS, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 23, 2013
Religious Canadians bend morals for the almighty buck: study
A new Canadian study has found that the more importance people place on
religion, the more likely they are to lie for financial gain.
Photograph by: Fotolia/File , Postmedia News
Do unto others — so long as you recognize them from church.
Incongruous as it sounds, a new Canadian study discovers that the more
importance people place on religion, the more likely they are to lie for
financial gain. The lead researcher hypothesizes that this “really strange
effect” is the result of the faithful feeling less kinship with the secular
, and ultimately less concern about screwing them over for a few bucks.
Also likely to fib for personal gain are business majors and people whose
parents are divorced: all other things equal, these people are 18.1 and 29.3
per cent, respectively, more likely to be deceptive when money is on the
line.
“Lying is a complex behaviour,” said Jason Childs, associate professor of
economics at the University of Regina. “We wanted to start a broader
exploration of the characteristics that are associated with it.”
The study — to appear in the December issue of the journal Economics
Letters — draws on 400 people randomly separated into pairs. The “sender”
in each coupling was given two payments: either $5 and $7 (“small return”
group) or $5 and $15 (“large return” group).
Senders were told to send a message to their partner — a “receiver” in
another room — informing them about which of the two amounts was higher,
and the receiver would then choose which one to take (generally, the larger
one).
Lying, however, would mean the sender wound up with the bigger payoff.
Sex, age, grade-point average, student debt, socioeconomic status and even
the size of the return had no real impact on the decision to lie. But area
of study, the marital status of the sender’s parents, and importance placed
on religion all made a difference, with the latter being the most
surprising to researchers.
“We had them rate the importance of religion on a scale, and as they went
up each point on that scale, they became about four per cent more likely to
lie,” said Childs, who proposes that the predominantly secular university
population played a role in religious students’ decision to defy a key
tenet of their faith (the most common religions on campus are Judaism, Islam
and Christianity, all preaching honesty as a virtue).
“My suspicion is that they feel like the receiver isn’t part of their
group, and that creates a feeling of otherness. That otherness leads to
feelings of detachment that can increase willingness to lie.”
Of course, this is only a theory. And Childs said the smaller sample size
means the results should be treated with caution until they can be
replicated.
Other key findings included the tendency for business majors to fib at a
higher rate, which is consistent with a wide body of literature on
dishonesty among that academic cohort.
“There’s a real possibility that business majors are either devious by
nature or by training,” said Childs, noting that the field is known for
people who are highly motivated by personal gain, and often competitive to a
fault.
Children of divorce also showed higher rates of lying, dovetailing with
previous research on the outcomes of broken families.
“There can be a lot of distrust, a lot of really negative sentiment,
generated in a divorce, and the children respond to that by acting out in an
antisocial manner,” Childs said. “That’s what we’re seeing here.”
The good news is that nearly half the study’s participants opted to tell
the truth, even though the experimental design ensured their anonymity, and
thus no consequences to lying beyond a guilty conscience.
“That, to me, was pretty remarkable,” Childs said. “People are dishonest
far less often than we think.”
mharris(at)postmedia.com
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发帖数: 25615 | 2 想起當年D版主收了四千元不該得的錢，然後感謝主的事。 | J*******g
发帖数: 8775 | 3 不知道你们大圣教的会不会为了10块钱撒谎。这种研究真是无聊啊。
【在 E*****m 的大作中提到】
: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Religious+Canadians+bend+m
: Religious Canadians bend morals for the almighty buck: study
: BY MISTY HARRIS, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 23, 2013
: Religious Canadians bend morals for the almighty buck: study
: A new Canadian study has found that the more importance people place on
: religion, the more likely they are to lie for financial gain.
: Photograph by: Fotolia/File , Postmedia News
: Do unto others — so long as you recognize them from church.
: Incongruous as it sounds, a new Canadian study discovers that the more
: importance people place on religion, the more likely they are to lie for
| E*****m
发帖数: 25615 | 4
不會，因為大聖教不要錢，也不要十一稅，不像某些宗教。
研究結論對基督教不利的，對你當然就無聊。
【在 J*******g 的大作中提到】
: 不知道你们大圣教的会不会为了10块钱撒谎。这种研究真是无聊啊。
| J*******g
发帖数: 8775 | 5 不管有没有利，这种研究都是无聊的。而且这里说的宗教也没特指哪个宗教。说不定还
有你们教的呢。
基督徒为教会捐钱都是自愿的。
【在 E*****m 的大作中提到】
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: 不會，因為大聖教不要錢，也不要十一稅，不像某些宗教。
: 研究結論對基督教不利的，對你當然就無聊。
| E*****m
发帖数: 25615 | 6 加拿大不知道哪個教人數較多
【在 J*******g 的大作中提到】
: 不管有没有利，这种研究都是无聊的。而且这里说的宗教也没特指哪个宗教。说不定还
: 有你们教的呢。
: 基督徒为教会捐钱都是自愿的。
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