Aside from the idiotic title (maybe some people are simply jerks, but rich jerks are less scared of consequences of their jerkiness, so they do more of it), this article describes mostly the studies/experiments that have nothing to do with real ethics.
Cutting of pedestrians? Cheating at an exam for $4 (I doubt that the cash prizes were more than $5)? Lying at a role-playing job interview? Hardly behavior that deserves to be qualified as unethical.
Would you call a surgeon who does a pro-bono medical procedure on some poor child, but cuts of pedestrians, unethical?
Does being not greedy, not taking candy, make a serial killer ethical?
I was once part of an experiment on risk aversion. We could choose to take the sure bet, and get $3, or a risky bet, and get either $0 or $6 (with 50% chance for each), and the bet would be repeated twice. I chose to take the risky bet. I mean, it's just $3, who cares, lets risk for fun! However, if it were $30,000, I would sure as hell take the sure bet. Lesson of the story: contrived psychological experiments don't tell you a lot about real life.
Cutting of pedestrians? Cheating at an exam for $4 (I doubt that the cash prizes were more than $5)? Lying at a role-playing job interview? Hardly behavior that deserves to be qualified as unethical.
Would you call a surgeon who does a pro-bono medical procedure on some poor child, but cuts of pedestrians, unethical?
Does being not greedy, not taking candy, make a serial killer ethical?
I was once part of an experiment on risk aversion. We could choose to take the sure bet, and get $3, or a risky bet, and get either $0 or $6 (with 50% chance for each), and the bet would be repeated twice. I chose to take the risky bet. I mean, it's just $3, who cares, lets risk for fun! However, if it were $30,000, I would sure as hell take the sure bet. Lesson of the story: contrived psychological experiments don't tell you a lot about real life.