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Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior
A recent study is suggesting that moral behavior may be encouraged with nothing more than clean smells. The Brigham Young University professor found a "dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex." "The researchers see implications for workplaces, retail stores and other organizations that have relied on traditional surveillance and security measures to enforce rules. Perhaps the findings could be applied at home, too, Liljenquist said with a smile. 'Could be that getting our kids to clean up their rooms might help them clean up their acts, too.' The study titled "The Smell of Virtue" was unusually simple and conclusive. Participants engaged in several tasks, the only difference being that some worked in unscented rooms, while others worked in rooms freshly spritzed with Windex."
You know she only cleans this thoroughly when she's angry, so we'd damn well better behave until this blows over.
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I call bs...whenever an attractive woman walks by smelling like she just stepped out of the shower I have only immoral thoughts.
But what if the task I'm assigned to do is to rob a bank? Does the spritz of Windex make my action ethical?
I never trusted the poop smith.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I love the smell of Windex in the morning... The smell, you know that fresh smell... Smells like, virtue.
One convenient locations...in Africa.
This explains why the average Slashdotter has such disregard for copyright!
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Let's get this straight. Windex typically reeks of ammonia. And so do public elevators where winos have urinated.
A coincidence? A paradox? Or, are the guys at Brigham Young sniffing gold spraypaint trying to come up with new ideas? Hmmmmm...?
I take it you are all out of Windex?
How would you describe the scent of the room you're in right now? My guess: bitter.
It's hard to think naughty thoughts when your eyes are melting out of your skull from pepper spray.
Glad I belong to the Church of Latte-day Saints then!
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
Windex comes in citrus?
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Are you two married?