# Our buggy moral code

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2009
- Speaker: Dan Ariely
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_our_buggy_moral_code)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.

## Lectures

1. [Our buggy moral code](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dan_ariely_our_buggy_moral_code/1021a7c4220b), 16 min (TED's player)