Seeds of adult dishonesty are sown in youth, study finds – latimes.com

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People who cheated in high school are more likely to cheat on their taxes or lie to spouses or customers and otherwise bend the truth, a Los Angeles-based ethics institutes report shows. “Once a liar, always a liar” is a proverbial parental admonishment.A new study claims there is truth to the adage: People who cheated on exams in high school are considerably more likely to be dishonest later in life, according to a report to be released today by the Josephson Institute of Ethics.