People are more likely to return a lost wallet with money inside than an empty wallet, concluded a group of international researchers who set out to test the tension between financial self-interest and honesty of people around the world. To the surprise of researchers, people who found the wallets returned them more often when they had a small sum of money than if the wallets didn’t have any money at all—and returned the wallets even more often if they had nearly $100.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 20, 2019 18:00 UTC