Ep 66 Dishonesty and Lying as a Survival Advantage, Social Camouflage and the Amygdala Response

Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

Dishonesty is a skill that we can become conditioned to. This means the more we lie the easier it is and the more apt we are to do it when there is a survival level advantage to be gained. For the right price, we are willing to split the difference if it means I get a bigger piece of the pie. Money, and material things can be gained to benefit self and not physically harm another individual. This is a higher permutation of dishonesty, as long as it is business and not harm of an organism or if the organism or person is a distant, non-proximal idea. This is an imperfect ideas as studies with electric shocks were controlled by students and at the urging of the confederates conducting the studies, some students were willing to shock a person to the point of lethality. No one was hurt but the conception and willingness to do this heinous action by "following orders" gives us a glimpse into our vulnerability to influence internal and external. Much to think about.