The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves Paperback – Illustrated, June 18, 2013 by Dr. Dan Ariely (Author), US.

"The best-selling author's creativity is evident throughout. . . . A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book offers especially keen insights into the ways in which we cut corners while still thinking of ourselves as moral people." -- Time.com

Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle--and inescapable parts of the human condition.

Drawing on original experiments and research, in the vein of Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Survival of the Sickest, Ariely reveals--honestly--what motivates these irrational, but entirely human, behaviors.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 136 x 203 x 20mm | 254g
• Publication date 18 Jun 2013
• Publisher Harper Perennial
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 0062183613
• ISBN13 9780062183613