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  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

related to improved project performance in some cases. Our results highlight a need for more nuanced approaches to leveraging experience in team management. Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

quiet scandal. In a time of tightening ad budgets, losses to advertising fraud come straight from the bottom line—but savings can be equally dramatic. Here's a look behind the veil—an explanation of ad practices that have cheated even the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while avoiding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and examine the conditions under which the slippery slope effect occurs. Customer-Based Valuation Author:Sunil Gupta... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

Loewenstein shed some light on the discrepancy. In each experiment, the researchers asked participants to answer a list of questions to indicate whether they had engaged in various sensitive activities—looking at pornographic material, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

designed to measure creativity. Those who cheated were subsequently more creative than noncheaters, even when we accounted for individual differences in their creative ability (Experiment 1). Using random assignment, we confirmed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

testing an easy-to-implement method to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rather than at the end of a self-report, as is the current common practice. Using both field and lab experiments, we find that signing before rather than after having faced the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in moral identity did not cheat more when they were depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies 1 and 2) and real tasks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
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Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

its Treasury auction scandal and told them to call him if they spotted a problem. Legal and ethical training for employees is important, as is consistent application of the company's policies on conflict of interest. If the executives get away with View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

http://hbr.org/product/rough-justice-stuart-eizenstat-and-holocaust-era-asset-restitution-b/an/914026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-001 Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance The widespread cheating scandal that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while avoiding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals' ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In five studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

on a test measuring divergent thinking tended to cheat more (Study 1); that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Study 2); and that participants who were primed to think creatively were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

unable to tell whether each child was honest or not, we speculate about the proportion of reported white outcomes. Children report the prize-winning outcome at rates statistically above 50% but below 100%. Moreover, the probability of View Details

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