If you found $100 on the street, would you try to find the owner?
72% said I'd try. Benjamin Franklin is looking right at you.
A hundred dollars on the street and nobody watching. Experiments that drop wallets around the world have found most people try to return them, especially when there's more money inside.
The numbers
In a similar question from Cohn et al., Science (lost wallet field experiment), 2019, 72% answered i'd try and 28% answered finders keepers. Source: Cohn et al., Science (lost wallet field experiment).
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