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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

Willingness to Compete in Dirty Competitions d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izad
"… a substantial proportion of participants are willing to engage in dirty behavior. Across conditions, 30-40% of participants enhance their chances of winning by #sabotaging their opponent or #lying about their performance. But note that this also means that in each condition, a majority of participants refrain from playing dirty, either by not entering the competition or by competing cleanly.
… women, higher-educated people, and older people are less willing to engage in dirty competition
… People with a higher willingness to engage in dirty #competition (and lower aversion to dirty play by others) are more likely to work in a management position and less likely to work in the public sector.
… a willingness to play dirty may be individually profitable, leading to upward mobility in corporate environments, it also seems to come at a social and psychological cost. People with a higher willingness to engage in dirty competition have fewer close contacts and lower self-esteem, and are more likely to experience feelings of #guilt and #shame."
#ExperimentalEcon #BehavioralEconomics

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jackhutton 🇺🇸

New this Wednesday morning: [The Atlantic]: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief. By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris, March 26, 2025, 8:19 AM ET

theatlantic.com/politics/archi

The Atlantic · Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on SignalBy Jeffrey Goldberg
#signal#signalgate#Hegseth
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Rasta

Arresting officers realize they can lie to secure confessions. Senior officers know they can exaggerate to lobby for bigger budgets. For some, a form of “noble cause corruption” is at play—a sense that any means will justify the ends of securing social order and making sure the bad guys go to jail.

thewalrus.ca/why-do-cops-keep-
#Cops #AboveTheLaw #Lying #Police

The Walrus · Why Do Cops Keep Lying? | The WalrusWidespread perjury among police is well documented. Obfuscating has become a routine part of policing
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The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]

Ukraine Daily summary - Sunday, March 16 2025

Russia readying to attack Sumy as Donbas front stabilizes -- 'Putin is lying to everyone' — Zelensky calls for 'strong pressure' on Russia after UK summit -- Duda denounces Russia for 'imperial greed,' reiterates calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in Poland -- Russia attacks Ukraine with 178 drones overnight, targets energy infrastructure -- and more

writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/U

writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Sunday, March 16 2025Russia readying to attack Sumy as Donbas front stabilizes -- 'Putin is lying to everyone' — Zelensky calls for 'strong pressure' on Russia after UK summit -- Duda denounces Russia for 'imperial greed,' reiterates calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in Poland -- Russia attacks Ukraine with 178 drones overnight, targets energy infrastructure -- and more
#voa#tesla#russia
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Wen

Director claims #BBC 'push false narrative' amid Traitors staffing row

The broadcaster's level of Scottish off-screen talent working on the hit TV series has been called “unacceptably low” by director and producer Peter Strachan, who said it has been a “conscious decision” to overlook Scots in favour of London-based worker

BBC #lying to hide their unwillingness to invest in #Scottish broadcasting as they are obliged by law to do. I apologise for the image.

thenational.scot/news/24926157

Photo: Winkelman on The Traitors
#Spending
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AI6YR Ben

It turns out that Google's AI is not that gouda

Gizmodo: Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl Ad

"...In the Wisconsin ad, a cheesemonger uses Gemini to help write copy for his business’s website. Gemini’s AI-generated text says that gouda makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption,” which, as it turns out, is not true...."

(ps. I know you pronounce "gouda" as "howda" actually, except in the US, where everyone calls it "Goo-dah")

gizmodo.com/google-had-to-fix-

Gizmodo · Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl AdIt's an accidental advertisement for AI's real feature: making stuff up.
#cheese#ai#lying
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Mark

What Trump, Putin & Orbán Understand About Your Brain

#Lying, #conspiratorial thinking might seem 2 different problems, but they're related

I study political rhetoric & work to understand how populists use language to develop cult-like following, divide nations, create culture wars & instil hatred. This pattern goes back to antiquity

politico.com/news/magazine/202

POLITICOWhat Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your BrainWhy do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
#dictators#cults#authoritarian
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alecm

One massive, glorious upside of the supposed “end of factchecking” is that Americans are finally learning how to Satire without a safety net

Too long the only US exponent of satire has been The Onion, and that seems only to survive on the basis of brand; but now people are saying things which are pointedly, gloriously and incredibly (nb: in-credible, viz: not credible on their face) false.

Please, continue! Let’s hope that the populace now swim in enough of a pool of falsehood that they learn to adapt and to become critical of what they are told.

Of course Snopes can’t help themselves. Factchecking persists. Nonetheless, lunchtime approaches. Maybe for a Hawaiian dogmeat burger?

#factChecking#lying#markZuckerberg
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Toni Aittoniemi

#Lying from the top as a central tenet of #authoritarianism:

As the #Trump regime takes over US tomorrow & has shown clear intent to do so using a page or more from the playbook of Russia, it’s important to remember some learnings from the USSR.

”We know that you know that we’re lying, but we’re rubbing it in your face that we can do it, so we’ll do it anyway” is AN EXCERCISE OF POWER MORE THAN OF UNTRUTHFULNESS.

The quicker you flip the script on this one, the sooner you can start to resist!

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Justin (koavf)

After confidently stating that he could easily cut over USD $2 trillion from the federal government budget, Elon Musk has now admitted that getting to even half of that target will be difficult: nbcnews.com/politics/politics-

NBC News · Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cutsBy David Ingram
#nbcnews#nbc#elonmusk
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