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01-20-2009 , 02:35 AM

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I’ve always thought that anyone that has to profess, claim, or constantly tell everyone how good/peaceful they are, are in reality the most violent and evil people. And now I have a study that backs me up. If you are a good and peaceful person you just live that. You don’t feel the need to tell people about it. The people that need to tell everyone about how peaceful they are, are SAYING it because they know they aren’t LIVING it. We need look no further than Islam calling itself the “Religion of peace”.

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You put the money in at the top. And you just grab your paper from the moisture-sealed bag below.

There’s nothing forcing you to pay, though. You could theoretically not pay anything and still grab a paper. It’s all based on the honor system. And therein lies the experiment.

Researches would clean out the coinbox and put one paper in the bag. After someone took the paper (and some time had passed), one researcher would check to see how much money that person paid. Another researcher would follow that person and, after enough distance had passed, stop the person “randomly” to interview him/her about a seemingly unrelated matter. By doing this, the researchers learned about the person’s “social behaviors.” (Not everyone was willing to be interviewed, and this was factored into the results.)

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