Why Wearing Fakes Makes Us Cheat More

InThe (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Dan Arielyexamines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave.

The relationships between what we wear and how we behave

When thinking about my experience with the Prada bag, I wondered whether there were other psychological forces related to fakes tha go beyond external signiling. There I was in Chinatown holding my real Prada bag, watching the woman emerge from the shop holding...