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Soul Cost Essay

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How Much Does a Soul Cost? And how much can I buy one for? By Kyle Lewis. People have long said that money is a corrupting influence in the hands of man. I would venture to say that anything that is widely accepted to have exceptional value is corrupting, but I over-step the bounds of my project. When people commit an un-ethical act, such as lying to attain money, it is known as a cost-benefit relationship. A cost-benefit relationship is when an action, such as robbing a bank, has a cost, in this example, going to jail when you’re caught. This action also has a benefit, such as the money you get from the bank. When the cost outweighs the benefit, like it does with this example, (marked cash vs. jail time) this action is overly risky. The cost in my proposed project is and embarrassment generated by lying, vs. the benefit of what participants will think is $1. A problem to be addressed in my experimental design is something known as the Hawthorne effect. The Hawthorne effect affects an experiment when the subjects of an experiment know that they are being observed, and react to …show more content…

So logically seeing money and having it offered to you (even more than thinking. As they say, “seeing is believing”) will probably have an even more profound effect. In a study of 300 college-aged business students where students were prompted to think of money specifically/ indirectly (Ex. They were told “$5 goes a long way” or “Susan got some money for her birthday”) or not at all. (Ex. “Look at this picture of a walrus!”) Participants who were prompted to think about money acted un-ethically twice as often as those who weren’t. This study consisted of many experiments, one of which is highly relevant to my experiment: 91 participants were told that they would receive $5 for lying to another participant, and $2 for not lying. Again, students who were induced to think of money lied twice as

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