On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, David Honig wrote:

> Over a decade ago I learned from published work 
> that if a logical problem is posed as cheating (an underage 
> person trying to buy ethanol IIRC)

Why is this 'cheating'?

> humans are much much better at solving the logical problem than if it is
> expressed otherwise.  Some cog scis think this is evidence of 
> hardwiring for social cheating perception.

Duh. Take a bottle away from a baby when it's feeding (cheating from its
point of view I'd suspect).


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