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Week Seven — August 5–11, 2012

The Ethics of Cheating

Who regulates behavior? To whose ethical standards should society be held? Lectures this week will examine cheating as an ethical wrong, but also challenge the assumption that cheating is always wrong. What are the motivations for cheating — psychological, evolutionary — and do we see it in nature? Do we make a distinction between cheating and “finding a loophole” or “bending the rules”? We will explore the history of cheating and its effect on business, sports, politics, technology, relationships and society. How can we maintain a culture of honor and integrity?


Confirmed Lecturers

Monday 8/6
Tuesday 8/7
Wednesday 8/8
Thursday 8/9
Friday 8/10

Dan Ariely

Julia Heiman

Paul McHugh

Roger Goodell

Erroll B. Davis, Jr.

Teresa A. Sullivan

Monday, August 6

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Dan Ariely

James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine and the Department of Economics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

Ariely is the author of the New York Times best-seller Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions and of The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Ways We Defy Logic at Work and at Home. Using simple experiments, he studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His research has been published in leading psychology,economics and business journals, and has been featured occasionally in the popular press. He is a regular contributor to Marketplace.

Ariely has taught at MIT, Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University, his master’s and doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a doctorate in business administration from Duke University.

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Tuesday, August 7

Julia Heiman

director, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University

Julia R. Heiman is director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and professor of psychology and clinical psychiatry at Indiana University. Her career has focused on understanding patterns of sexuality from an integrated psychosocial-biomedical perspective. Previously, while a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine, she co-founded and directed the UW Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Clinic.

Published broadly in the area of sex research on male and female sexual function and dysfunction, Heiman has served as editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Sex Research and co-edited a special issue of the journal Hormones and Behavior on “Sexual Arousal.” She has also served as president of the International Academy of Sex Research and the American Board of Family Psychology, member of several National Institute of Mental Health Initial Review Group Study Sections and FDA Reproductive Health Drug Advisory Committee consultant.

Heiman’s honors include the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society of the Scientific Study of Sex, the Richard J. Cross Award, the SSTAR Masters & Johnson Award and the Gold Medal Award from the World Association of Sexual Health. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, specialty psychophysiology, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, now Stony Brook University.


Paul McHugh

University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Paul R. McHugh is the University Distinguished Service Professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Previously, he served as director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the school and as psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has also held positions in the Cornell University School of Medicine, the New York Hospital Westchester Division and the Oregon Health Sciences Center.

McHugh was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the President’s Council on Bioethics and, in 2002, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People. Beyond his professional publications, he has written articles for the public on psychiatry published in The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Baltimore Sun.

Educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, McHugh received further training at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s) Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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Wednesday, August 8

Roger Goodell

commissioner, National Football League

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Thursday, August 9

Erroll B. Davis, Jr.

superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools

Erroll B. Davis Jr. is the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools and former chancellor of the University System of Georgia, where he was responsible for the state’s 35 public colleges and universities. Previously, he served as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Alliant Energy Corporation.

Davis is a former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, former chairman of the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, and presently serves as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board and the board of trustees of the University of Chicago. He serves as a member of the board of directors of General Motors and Union Pacific Corp., and on the National Commission on Energy Policy, along with numerous professional associations and civic organizations.

Davis and his wife, Elaine, established the Davis Family Foundation, which makes annual grants to students in need. He has earned recognition as one of Georgia Trend magazine’s “100 Most Influential Georgians” and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “100 Most Influential Atlantans,” and has been honored for achievement as an engineer and executive. A native of Pittsburgh, Davis received his degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago.

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Friday, August 10

Teresa A. Sullivan

president, University of Virginia

Teresa A. Sullivan is the eighth president of the University of Virginia, home to the nation’s oldest student-run honor system, under which students pledge not to lie, cheat or steal. Sullivan previously was the provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, and executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Texas System.

Sullivan’s research focuses on labor force demography, with particular emphasis on economic marginality and consumer debt. The author or co-author of six books and more than 50 scholarly articles, her most recent work explores the question of who files for bankruptcy and why. She has served on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. At Texas, she also served as vice president and graduate dean, vice provost, chair of the Department of Sociology and director of Women’s Studies.

Sullivan has served as chair of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, secretary of the American Sociological Association and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A graduate of James Madison College at Michigan State University, she received her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.

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