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Not all cheaters are creative. But apparently enough creative people cheat to interest researchers like Francesca Gino. Professor Gino is a behavioral economist at the Harvard Business School in Massachusetts. Behavioral economists use ideas from psychology to study how people make economic choices.

FRANCESCA GINO: "Interestingly, there are actually a lot of examples in the literature, novels, movies, comic books about this idea of the evil genius, but really no empiricalevidence for this relationship."

BATMAN (ADAM WEST): "He’s terrorized Gotham City, he’s baffled the police department and he’s held us up to public ridicule."