哈佛大学研究：想钱会让你堕落

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CNN报道，一项最新研究显示，即使仅仅是思考到钱也能诱发人们去说谎、偷窃或做出其它不道德决定。

那些刚刚看到金钱影像或有关金钱词句的人更容易做一些不道德的事，比如将办公室的纸回家。企业更喜欢雇用那些表示愿意透露前雇主信息的求职者。如果能赚到钱，一些人情愿说谎。

上述结果是哈佛大学与犹他大学研究人员所进行的四项研究计划得到的，共有324人参与了研究。研究人员让参与者下意识想到金钱、研究人员还让参与者看到金钱并要求他们组成与金钱相关的句子。

犹他大学埃克尔斯商学院副教授Kristin Smith-Crowe表示，“我们从这些研究中发现，与对照组相比，那些接触到金钱概念的参与者更容易做出不道德的决定与行为。”Crowe负责其中一项研究。

为什么会这样？研究发现，金钱概念让参与者进入生意模式，让他们基于利益得失而不是道德来做出商业决定。

这些研究对现实生活有什么意义呢？这些研究结果表明，金钱在日常生活中对人们的影响要远远大于我们的预期。

这些研究得出的结论是：“金钱对道德的腐蚀要比我们想像得更为严重，仅仅是金钱这一概念便会让人变得堕落。”

Just thinking about money can corrupt you

When money is on your mind, you may be more likely to act unethically.

Simply thinking about money can trigger people to lie, steal and make unethical decisions, new research shows.
People who have just seen images of money or phrases about money are more likely to do something unethical like steal paper from their office because they ran out of paper at home. They're more apt to hire a candidate who says he will share confidential insider information about his former company. And if it means winning money, they're more likely to lie to get it.

These results come from four studies conducted by researchers at Harvard University and University of Utah. There were 324 participants overall, and to get a group of the participants to subconsciously think about money, researchers showed them images of currency or asked them to unscramble words to form money-related phrases.

"Across all of these studies we found that participants who were merely exposed to the concept of money were more likely to demonstrate unethical intentions, decisions, and behavior than participants in a control condition," said Kristin Smith-Crowe, one of the study's authors and an associate professor at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business.

Why? Because the exposure to money puts participants in a business mind frame -- leading them to make business decisions based on monetary benefits and big payoffs instead of morals, the study found.

When it comes to real world implications, the findings indicate that everyday exposure to money may be influencing peoples' actions and decisions more than we think.

"These findings suggest that money is a more insidious corrupting factor than previously appreciated, as mere, subtle exposure to money can be a corrupting influence," the study concludes.

原文地址：http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/17/pf/money-corrupt/index.html