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When you devalue people of certain groups, they're going to lie and cheat around you

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Ted Bauer
Jun 09, 2015
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Defeating Stereotypes

Kind of interesting, and from here:

A series of five studies showed that people are more likely to lie, cheat, steal, or endorse doing so when they feel that they are being devalued simply because they belong to particular groups.

This is mostly about minority or gender groups -- i.e. African-American, female -- being stereotyped, but I'd argue it has bi…

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