Research shows that people are less likely to cheat or demonstrate other undesirable behavior when working in front of a mirror. Perhaps we should mandate that all interior walls in our politicians’ offices are covered with mirrors. I’m sure they will become immune to it after they get used to it in a couple of weeks, but for a few weeks at least, we’ll have a cleaner government.
“Other researchers have determined that mirrors can subtly affect human behavior, often in surprisingly positive ways. Subjects tested in a room with a mirror have been found to work harder, to be more helpful and to be less inclined to cheat, compared with control groups performing the same exercises in nonmirrored settings. Reporting in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, C. Neil Macrae, Galen V. Bodenhausen and Alan B. Milne found that people in a room with a mirror were comparatively less likely to judge others based on social stereotypes about, for example, sex, race or religion.”
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