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Complicit How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

Reah Bravo

A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world—and what we can do to change things for the better. When Reah Bravo began working at the

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Freakonomics Radio

The book discusses how people enable unethical behavior and how to stop it. It was written after the author spent a lot of time thinking about alleged fraud in academic research.

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He recently published a book called Complicit, How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop.

— Episode: 573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

Episode: 573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

The book discusses how people enable unethical behavior and how to stop it. It was written after the author spent a lot of time thinking about alleged fraud in academic research.

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He recently published a book called Complicit, How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop.

And he's working on another book about social science fraud.

Episode: 382. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?

The book was briefly discussed in relation to an anecdote about a subscription renewal experience that was difficult to cancel and described as 'sludge'.

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The first review of my book, Misbehaving came out in the Times of London.

No Stupid Questions

It was mentioned in relation to the psychology of magic bullets and how people tend to look for one cause to explain a complex event, as illustrated by a case study involving Theranos.

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He has this new book called Complicit, How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop.

— Episode: 104. How Simple Is Too Simple?

Episode: 104. How Simple Is Too Simple?

It was mentioned in relation to the psychology of magic bullets and how people tend to look for one cause to explain a complex event, as illustrated by a case study involving Theranos.

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He has this new book called Complicit, How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop.

I was teaching this group of executives online. I asked the class what caused the massive fraud at Theranos?

Clearly there were multiple causes of fraud at Theranos. But when I looked at the class's answers, I found they tended to be simple and singular.

62 of the 70 responses offered a single cause. 56 of those 62 were a simple description of Elizabeth Holmes, such as her ego or lack of integrity.

In other words, the vast majority of the sophisticated executives in my class who knew all aspects of the story blamed a single source.

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