A lot of different questions are of interest to psychologists. For instance, which professions are the most honest? According to Gallop survey the most trustful are priests. 59% of people consider them to be honest-minded. The least honest are considered car shop assistants. Only 5% of respondents trust them.

However, which professions deserve trust in reality? Are auto show workers so unprincipled and church attendants so moral? This question was of big interest to Professor Richard Wiseman and he made an experiment to check the truth of this stereotype.

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