Our Buggy Moral Code

Explore the hidden reasons behind our moral decision-making in this thought-provoking TED-Ed talk by behavioral economist Dan Ariely. Delve into clever studies that reveal how we rationalize cheating and stealing, demonstrating our predictably irrational nature. Discover the concept of a "personal fudge factor" and how honor codes influence behavior. Examine intriguing experiments involving tokens and cheating, and gain insights into what these findings teach us about human nature. Investigate the implications of these discoveries for understanding phenomena like stock market behavior and challenge your intuitions about morality and decision-making.

Introduction
Irrationality
Experiments
Experiment
Cheating
Personal fudge factor
Honor code
Half lifetime
Token experiment
Cheating experiment
What have we learned
The stock market
Our intuitions