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'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly
dylanduck quotes a NewScientist.com article that says "We all know the scene: the coffee room with the 'honesty box' where you pay for your drinks — or not, because no one is watching. But researchers have discovered that merely a picture of watching eyes trebled the amount of money paid." That's a pretty deep-rooted fear of getting caught, which could be useful for crime prevention perhaps. But whose eyes?"
Maybe flowers make you pay less?
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Just so everyone will flush and wash their hands!
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Is fear of getting caught a worse human trait than the tendency to be dishonest?
I'd like to think the better of my fellow man, but this story just tells me that I'm probably not being honest with myself.
Here's a picture suitable for posting on your refrigerator, to aid with dieting efforts. It combines the 'watching eyes' effect with the 'I'm gonna hurl' effect to maximize effect.
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A single eye, composed of orange flames, sitting atop a tall tower, emitting a large beam of light, like a lighthouse, should work pretty well.
Then again, it didn't work out too well the last time someone tried it.
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no person could have possibly thought the eyes were real
You've never watched any Scooby Doo cartoons at all, have you?
If you look at the eyes, they look very concerned and hurt. I think that this probably triggered emotions of the coffee fund being an employee thing and you weren't taking coffee from the company but your fellow man.
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We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
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I wonder if the effect is the same with cat's eyes
Those of TJ Eckleburg, of course.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
My dad lost an eye in WWII. He was a farmer in Kenya after the war, and would sometimes 'pop' his eye and leave it on a post to keep farm workers from slacking off. It worked well, until they figured out they just needed to put a hat over the eye.
I suppose pretty soon the RIAA will demand that all blank CD's come pre-printed with a pair of teary puppy-dog eyes.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
We all know the scene: the coffee room with the "honesty box" where you pay for your drinks - or not, because no one is watching.
I hardly ever pay for my drinks in regular coffee shops so why would I start paying in some honesty box?
We all know the scene, you go into the starbucks and order the double. Before paying you pretend you have to run to the washroom. When you get back the coffee is waiting for you so you snatch it and run out the door screaming "rape." Or you can just live here in Japan where some places you pay after you drink. In that case you pretend to go to the washroom after you finish your coffee and simply climb* out the window (shouting "rape").
* Note: There might be a bit of a fall if the shop is on the third floor**.
** This may or may not have been learned through experience.
And if this truly works, does that make xeyes a productivity tool?
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now behave!
thats "trebled", not tripled ;)
I am certain that one as perspicacious as thou was not remiss in making proper use of thine Capitals and Punctuation when reprimanding yonder knave for his abuse of the King's English.
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