Word: self-interest
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...benefit anybody?" One answer: parents of motivated students tend to be pretty motivated and skilled at persuading school boards to sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission to top-shelf high schools and colleges has become a blood sport, self-interest trumps community building most of the time. In Montclair, N.J., lawsuits brought by African-American parents in the late 1980s forced Montclair High School to detrack one course--ninth-grade literature--so that students of all abilities and test scores would sit next to each other and read the same...
This is the one breathtaking line in his speech, because it is breathtakingly self-aware. Sociologists suggest that almost all lies, certainly the most pernicious ones, are motivated by self-interest. This is what is known as an adaptive lie, a lie to avoid punishment or to achieve gain. Sociologists observe this phenomenon in children as young as two years...
This is also an expression of self-interest: by protecting his family he was protecting himself. This is the lie sociologists see when one partner in a marriage hides an adulterous liaison. One study showed that while women committing adultery tend to blame themselves, the men cast the blame elsewhere. Women feel shame when they lie; men regret. A woman will say, "I lied; therefore I'm no good." A man will say, "I lied, but Ken Starr forced...
...week as a second chance to prepare for more pain, possibly something much worse. Even the mutual-fund industry, arguably the biggest beneficiary of perpetual bullishness, is preaching caution. At the industry's recent annual conference, which I attended, the theme was "building investor knowledge." The effort smacks of self-interest; the subtitle might well have been "how fund companies can avoid blame when the bubble bursts." But the basic message--that the market cannot keep going straight up--is a good one. Any stocks or stock funds that you can't hold through a 2000-point Dow slide...
...Self-interest found its way into this year's race for council offices as Stewart and Samuel C. Cohen '00, current council vice president, baited students with "Larry King Live," "The Real World" and "South Park." The students...