Friday, March 19, 2010

Environmentally friendly shoppers likely to cheat

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Environmentally-friendly-shoppers-likely-to-cheat-/articleshow/5698197.cms
Environmentally aware consumers are more likely to lie, cheat and be unkind than regular shoppers, a study suggests.

Researchers say that people have a limited stock of goodwill and that being virtuous in one part of life leads to meanness in another. The phenomenon called "compensatory ethics" came to light in a series of experiments ...

1 comment:

  1. Hmm...I wonder if I can be considered as an environmentally friendly shopper? I bring my own bag (usually), and I try to get organic stuff when I can...

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