Compléter How honest is the average person?Version en ligne Listen to the audio and fill in the gaps. par Martín Emmanuel Vazquez Desilos 1 transparent cash guilty conducted equivalent law of presence encouraged court dishonest recent experiment key none asked subjects theaters 355 different $95 figure study researchers speculate surprisingly likely cash currency percentage report business 40 increased employee card hotels than return would wondered grocery wallet inside How honest is THE AVERAGE PERSON ? If you lost your in a public place , you expect someone to it to you ? Most people that no one would . But a would prove you wrong . In fact , the study found that people are even more to return a wallet with in it a wallet with . U . S . and Swiss conducted the study in cities across different countries . They placed more than 17 , 000 plastic wallets ( so anyone could see what was of them ) in banks , , museums , post offices , , police stations , and even a . Researchers then ''found'' the wallets and took them to an at each place , saying they had found a wallet and the employee to ''take care of it . '' Each wallet contained a list , a , and contact information on the ''owner's'' , and the employee could see those items through the transparent plastic . But some wallets also had in them ? approximately US $14 in local ? while others did not . The researchers wanted to see if the of the study would contact the wallet's owner to that they had found it . While the rates of reporting the wallet to the owner differed in countries , in the majority of countries , , subjects were more likely to reach out to the owner if the wallet had money in it than if it did not . Researchers then what would happen if they the amount of money in the wallet . So they a second in three countries this time . In this experiment they increased the amount of money so the wallet contained the of US , a much larger sum . To their surprise , they found that an even higher of subjects returned the wallet when it contained more money . It's impossible to know why the of cash people to return the wallets , and why when there was even more cash in the wallets even more people returned them . Some researchers that the subjects of the study knew they would feel if they were and did not return the wallets .
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