Why Materialists Cheat
The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future, published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, recently arrived at the offices of WIE. Among its many other compelling facts, we were struck by this description of an experiment conducted by Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota and Jonathan Schooler of the University of British Columbia that investigated the ways in which believing, or disbelieving, in free will affects moral choices:
[W]hat one believes about free will has an important social consequence.... In the Vohs and Schooler study, [some] participants read passages from The Astonishing Hypothesis by Nobel laureate biologist Francis Crick, which promotes the idea that free will is an illusion: “Who you are is nothing but a pack of neurons.” Others read more neutral statements as a control condition. The results of the study showed that participants who read [Crick's] anti-free will statements were significantly more likely to cheat on several experimental tasks. If exposure to [anti-free will messages] increases the likelihood of unethical actions, then what does this same message, repeated by authoritative scientists and promoted by the media, do to societal behavior?
The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future, published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, recently arrived at the offices of WIE. Among its many other compelling facts, we were struck by this description of an experiment conducted by Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota and Jonathan Schooler of the University of British Columbia that investigated the ways in which believing, or disbelieving, in free will affects moral choices:
[W]hat one believes about free will has an important social consequence.... In the Vohs and Schooler study, [some] participants read passages from The Astonishing Hypothesis by Nobel laureate biologist Francis Crick, which promotes the idea that free will is an illusion: “Who you are is nothing but a pack of neurons.” Others read more neutral statements as a control condition. The results of the study showed that participants who read [Crick's] anti-free will statements were significantly more likely to cheat on several experimental tasks. If exposure to [anti-free will messages] increases the likelihood of unethical actions, then what does this same message, repeated by authoritative scientists and promoted by the media, do to societal behavior?
The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the story of our future
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Evolution and Human Nature
A Broadening Understanding of EvolutionScience
A Broadening Understanding of EvolutionScience
Rediscovers Our HumanityThe Other Side of Human NatureThe Challenge of Our Time
Section IIT
Section IIT
oward a New Scientific Synthesis
The Science of AnomaliesWest Meets WestAn Age of Re-enlightenment?
Section III
The Science of AnomaliesWest Meets WestAn Age of Re-enlightenment?
Section III
The Rise of Global Civil Society
Social Change: Institutional and Grassroots MovementsEconomics and Prosperity: Beyond GDPMedia and Information: Democratizing Knowledge and Catalyzing Rapid Change
Section IV
Social Change: Institutional and Grassroots MovementsEconomics and Prosperity: Beyond GDPMedia and Information: Democratizing Knowledge and Catalyzing Rapid Change
Section IV
Internalizing Paradigm Shift
The Meditating Heart of the Mind
The Meditating Heart of the Mind
The Compassionate Mind of the HeartParticipatory Evolution
Conclusion notes
Conclusion notes
Resources
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