He was part of a team of behavioral researchers tackling two important questions: Do people around the world return lost wallets? Regardless of country, people were more likely to try to return wallets with larger amounts of money inside, according to a new study published Thursday in Science. Can you take care of it?”In some cases the teller would discover the wallet contained no money. The fact that people were more likely to return wallets that included money (especially a lot of money) surprised the researchers. It also surprised the 300 top academic economists they surveyed, who predicted people would be more likely to keep the wallets with money.

Source: Washington Post June 20, 2019 18:03 UTC