科学家研究了美国东南部大学的97名学生，要求他们完成一系列广受认可的心理学测试。

Participants looked at drawings with dots on two sides of a diagonal line and were then asked figure out which side had more dots. In half of the 200 tests, there was a virtually identical number of dots on either side.

参与者需要看着一条对角线两侧有圆点的图案，然后指出哪一侧的圆点更多。在一共200个测试中，有一半其实两侧的圆点数量相同。

The students were then given an incentive of 5 cents for choosing the right side of the line but only 0.5 cents for picking the left side of diagram.

研究者事先告诉学生奖励的方法：选线右侧可以得到5美分，选左侧只能拿到0.5美分。

The more creative people chose the more lucrative right side even though there was no reason for them to believe it had more dots.

创意性更丰富的人即使在明知没有理由确定右边的圆点多的情况下，也会选择奖励更为丰厚的右侧。

The researchers claim that this is proof that creative individuals construct imaginative justifications in their mind while cheating, and in particular, when cheating for money.

研究人员表示，这可以证明创意丰富的人在欺骗行为时会在心中构建各种充满想象力的借口，尤其涉及到金钱时。

A second experiment saw students answer general-knowledge questions by circling their answers on test paper.

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