Mind's Eye Re: A Book At Xmas or two

I wonder if the researchers took into account that a truly ethical person would not participate in the kind of rubbish that presents predictable limited outcomes as fact.  There may, indeed, be a correlation between creativity and ethics, but I suspect it is more inclusive and requires examination without the limits designed to define results. I keep going back to the model of spiral dynamics, one that allows and understands that we all move up and down and between memes during our lives given the circumstances of our experience.  Someone who does not have enough money for food may cheat in this experiment more than someone who has never known financial stress or hunger.  Here is a pretty good explanation of the original Graves material, although I've seen better, its the best I could find online this morning. http://www.edumar.cl/documentos/SD_version_for_constellation5.pdf 

On Monday, December 24, 2012 5:58:21 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:

A free paper with the ideas is at http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/11-064.pdf
I was interested because I find professional ethics and religious
morality collapse under circumstances of self-interest and become
rationalisation.  WE need creative solutions - but there is a dark
side to creativity.

On 24 Dec, 22:03, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone —
> Especially Ourselves" by Dan Ariely asks a seemingly simple question —
> "is dishonesty largely restricted to a few bad apples, or is it a more
> widespread problem?" — and goes on to reveal the surprising,
> illuminating, often unsettling truths that underpin the uncomfortable
> answer. Like cruelty, dishonesty turns out to be a remarkably
> prevalent phenomenon better explained by circumstances and cognitive
> processes than by concepts like character.
>
> Work like this is challenging traditional economics - the genre is
> 'behavioural economics'.  My own take on this book and a lot of work
> from brain science and history is that we are at a tipping point in
> respect of the possibility of a human science.  I'd like to see a
> broader literature take up this challenge beyond current drivel on
> black and white hats.
>
> So what are you guys reading?

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