In this article it talks about the book by Dan Ariely called The Honest Truth about Dishonesty in which he makes the conjecture that people in most cases lie in order to make themselves feel better, but also beniffit by cheating and as such we actually trick ourselves in order to make ourselves believe that we're not actually cheaters. This means that, for example, given a test with two possible ways to cheat: looking at your neighbors paper or looking up and "accientally" seeing the answer key to the test on the teacher's desk, most people would look at the key and then convince themselves that they weren't actually cheating as the key was sitting in front of them. I thought this was actually really interesting because just a few weeks ago my Dad and I were in an airport with Mr. Hannon when these two guy who were on a waiting list to get on the plane went and asked the lady behind the desk if they could see the list of names of people waiting for the seats. The lady said no as she said the names list was confidential and the two men kind of huffed and then went back to their seats. A few minutes later the lady was called away for something and all of the sudden I saw the two men run up to the desk and start blowing really hard. They were actually blowing the papers off the list so they could see the names as if that was somehow less wrong then simply reaching over and moving the papers. Too funny. This is exactly what this man was talking about. Crazy.