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Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty
(2012)
Early research and teaching on ethics focused on either a moral development perspective or philosophical approaches, and used a normative approach by focusing on the question of how people should act when resolving ethical ...
Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass
(Elsevier, 2012)
In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who engages in selfish or dishonest behavior leads people to vicariously justify the actions ...
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Distancing Response to Ethical Dissonance
(American Psychological Association, 2013-11-14)
Six studies demonstrate the "pot calling the kettle black" phenomenon whereby people are guilty of the very fault they identify in others. Recalling an undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between ...
Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors
(Elsevier, 2014)
The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of ...
The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo
(Sage, 2012)
Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that the original givers would be more offended than ...
Sweeping Dishonesty under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules
(American Psychological Association, 2012)
Dishonest behavior can have various psychological outcomes. We examine whether one consequence could be the forgetting of moral rules. In four experiments, participants were given the opportunity to behave dishonestly, and ...
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
(American Psychological Association, 2012)
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from ...
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, ...
Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior
(INFORMS, 2014)
In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation ...
Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments
(American Psychological Association, 2014-10-28)
The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism ...