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Dec

2011

Does "full disclosure" really address conflicts of interest? - Barking up the wrong tree

"Coming clean about conflicts of interest, they find, can promote less ethical behavior by advisers. People with a conflict gave biased advice to benefit themselves. disclosing the conflict of interest — far from being a solution — actually made advisers act in a more self-serving way."
AND people were actually more likely to comply with the advice when the doctor’s bias was disclosed. people feel an increased pressure to take the advice to avoid insinuating that they distrust their doctor. People feel pressure to behave generously even if it’s not in their best interest

www.bakadesuyo.com/osure-really-address-conflicts

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Oct

2009

Innocence Versus Insight

We could avoid insight too much to signal our loyalty and confidence, or we could pursue insight too much to signal our ability and courage.

hanson.gmu.edu/innocence.html

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in many social contexts ignorance can be a good thing, in part because helps to preserve idealism. Idealism is a simplified view of the world that supports optimism about the abilities or motives of oneself, one's associates, one's groups, and of related social processes.
idealism, a simplified optimistic vision of abilities and motives, can help one to become more deeply attached to associates and groups. This innocence often comes at the expense of insight however, and people often prefer to signal that they have the ability to gain insight.
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- Someone who has had little contact with other nations or cultures might find it easy to innocently presume that his nation and culture are superior. Because of this, in some places those who travel may be suspected of being less loyal to associates and the local community, and of being more at risk of adopting disapproved foreign attitudes and customs. In other places, travel may be celebrated, because those who travel more show they have more social contacts, wealth, and knowledge of the world, while those who travel less appear dull and timid.
- In a discipline where most students focus on career ambitions, those who focus on ideas may seem naive and perhaps unwilling to compromise enough to succeed. In a discipline where most students focus on ideas, those who focus on career ambitions may appear to have insufficient interest to keep them in the field over the long run. One equilibria may select more ambitious and realistic students, while the other one may select more honestly interested but naive students.
- self-deception. Humans naturally think more highly of themselves and their communities than their evidence can justify, but deny that they are biased in this way. This sincere confidence helps people to convince others to think highly of them, and to convince their group of their strong attachment to it. If you force yourself to face facts squarely you may gain better insight into yourself and human nature, and perhaps even signal a certain rare ability to achieve this result. Buy you may less convince others of your other abilities, and to convince your group of your loyalty.
- innocent idealistic visions of the world can be quite negative about some things, as long as they are positive about the innocent person and his associates. For example, an innocent might see sex as dirty and disgusting, to support a romantic vision of relationships. Or an innocent might see all politicians as corrupt, supporting a vision of ordinary voters as uncorrupted.
- idealistic people often seem to know how acquiring more insight would on average change their attitudes. For example, the young often know about the attitudes the old have on average toward marriage, careers, nations, and so on. Young who do not acquire insight from this fact need to explain such age differences in differing preferences or abilities, rather than differing information. Are they right, or do they fool themselves?
- There are always things we could do which would teach us more about ourselves, our local associates and community, and about how much we approve of local customs and mores. If we take such actions, we may gain the benefit of insight, but we may run the risk of seeming less attractive and attached to our associates, and of becoming less bound to common mores.