>>>>http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/07/22/0236213/experiment-shows-people-exposed-to-east-german-socialism-cheat-more?sdsrc=popbyskid
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>>>The article seems a bit slanted. The difference in behaviour was surely not down to the capitalist/socialist nature of the respective states but because of the 'police state' nature of East Germany. Looking at a sample from a capitalistic police state would probably provide the same results as the E German sample.
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>>>capitalistic police state
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>>Oxymoron ? :-\
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>Why. South Africa in apartheid days, Chile, Cuba (pre-revolution) etc.

Looks like you saw the Wiki article :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state

If "police state" includes economic control, that's not compatible with capitalism as most would like it to be. Crony capitalism or kleptocracy, sure.

Maybe the issue is more with living under repression and/or corruption, rather than socialism. Of course, that begs the question of whether socialism suffers from them more than "other forms [of government] that have been tried from time to time" ;)