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Darkness Increases Dishonest Behavior

March 3, 2010 by

Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions; thus Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in "Worship" in The Conduct of Life (1860), "as gaslight is the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity...

One Response to Darkness Increases Dishonest Behavior

  1. india March 3, 2010 - 7:27 pm

    best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity…

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