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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and Moral Growth | Scientific American

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Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

October 14, 2025 17 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse-And How Courage Can Reverse It Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good By Elizabeth Svoboda edited by Madhusree Mukerjee Tim Bower I t started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he'd sent to landowners, offering to lease their rights, had incorrect information, including monetary amounts and other details. But instead of correcting the errors, Bentle

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