Looking to catch your fellow humans on their very best behavior? New research suggests you'd be well served to try them in the morning. Which is ironic, since I'd mug a schoolchild for an egg sandwich and a cup of coffee right now.
Have you been acting dishonest around the office lately by taking credit for other people's work or misreporting numbers? There's a chance that your recent acts of workplace scum-baggery are not entirely your fault. New research shows that the impulse to cheat might come from (or is at least encouraged by) a lack of…
It's common knowledge that today's fur industry is notoriously cruel to our fuzzy little brethren of Earth, and understandable that the tide has turned severely since the Golden Age of Hollywood, when women like Liz Taylor and Rita Hayworth would traipse around red carpets with full-body fox stoles around their necks…
You know what I hate? Cheating. Cheating is shitty, and people shouldn't cheat. But you know what I don't hate? Also cheating! Cheating is great sometimes, and super helpful. I'm specifically talking about academic cheating, but the same applies to cheating in general—cheating hurts people, and it hurts the cheater,…
A new study from the Department of Making You Feel Better About Yourself has concluded that there may be more to the stereotype of the rich jerk than meets the eye — in many cases, wealthy people are more prone to act like dicks than the rest of the population.
A convicted rapist who was scheduled for a heart transplant has given rise to a controversy about how much state-funded medical care prisoners are entitled to in a society where not every law-abiding citizen can afford to go the doctor.
We all have annoying friends who post TMI-ish pictures of their own frozen placentas or their infants' detached navels, but four Kansas nursing students have decided to up the Facebook oversharing ante... by posting pictures of someone else's placenta.
A fertility clinic in London is offering a free human egg this week to promote a "baby profiling" service. The lucky winner will get to chose an egg based on the donor's profession, hair color, and race.
Vegetarianism has gotten a lot of press lately, but in yesterday's Times, Gary Steiner argued that being truly ethical involves eschewing far more than meat — and this kind of abstemiousness may be falling out of favor.
According to a new study, kids who cheated in high school are more likely to grow up to be dishonest adults. In related news: My generation is fucked.
A reader recently applied for a job at Urban Outfitters, and tipped us off to a survey the company requires as part of the application process. Did we make up a fake name and take the online questionnaire? Yes.
Doctors have discovered that high levels of testosterone in the womb may increase the risk of autism, raising the possibility of a prenatal test for the condition. But is testing for autism ethical?
What are morals? And why does generation after generation insist on infusing certain behaviors, whether they be eating pork or eating meat, cloning cows or cloning zygotes, driving pickups or buying Barbies at Wal-Mart, drinking or smoking, with the radioactive taint that is MORALITY? Why do the universal biological…
As we're smack dab in the middle of the holiday shopping season, do you wonder if that oh-so-cheap cashmere sweater you've purchased was stitched by malnourished six year olds? Do you question whether the python that gave up its skin for your handbag was killed humanely? (It definitely wasn't!) Some of the big luxury…
One of the best ("best" = soul-wrenching!) parts about working on Jezebel is reading what Jezebel readers have to say back. So we were practically drawing straws for the chance to wade through your thoughts on our decision to pay $10,000 so we could run an un-retouched Redbook cover featuring Faith Hill. (Yup, Baby Spice …
