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  • January 2014
  • Article

Self-reported Ethical Risk Taking Tendencies Predict Actual Dishonesty

By: Liora Zimerman, Shaul Shalvi and Yoella Bereby-Meyer
Are people honest about the extent to which they engage in unethical behaviors? We report an experiment examining the relation between self-reported risky unethical tendencies and actual dishonest behavior. Participants’ self-reported risk taking tendencies were... View Details
Keywords: DOSPERT; Risk Taking; Honesty; Lying; Dishonesty; Unethical Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • June 2020
  • Article

Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review

By: J Lu, J. Lee, F. Gino and A. Galinsky
Lu, Lee, Gino, and Galinsky (2018) reported four studies demonstrating that air pollution predicted unethical behavior and that one mediating mechanism was state anxiety. In contrast, Heck and colleagues reported two null-effect studies on air pollution, trait... View Details
Keywords: State Anxiety; Pollution; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Analysis
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

'It Wouldn’t Have Mattered Anyway': When Overdetermined Outcomes Justify Our Sins

By: Stephanie C. Lin, Julian J. Zlatev and Dale T. Miller
We identify and document an “overdetermined outcome defense” which occurs when one learns that circumstances besides one’s own actions were sufficient to produce a negative effect (e.g., deciding not to go to the gym, but later discovering that the gym had been... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Outcome or Result; Behavior
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Don't Let Power Corrupt You

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes... View Details
Keywords: Humility; Empathy; Hubris; Leadership; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility; Performance Effectiveness
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  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
GlassHouse Research identified accounting red flags at Catalent. Fiat Lux Partners countered most of GlassHouse’s claims. Who was right? This update explores the aftermath of the short seller duel. View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Acquisition; Budgets and Budgeting; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Government Legislation; Conflict of Interests; Announcements; Blogs; Debates; Lawsuits and Litigation; Stocks; Performance Productivity; Pharmaceutical Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

At Maverick, employees' morale had gone down, but no one had quit. In my conversations with the CEO, he was eager to learn how employees were feeling about the company, but did not express awareness of this problem. Q: In this firm or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that have significant consequences. Research in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

features of relational pluralism inside and across organizations. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for research. August 2013 Psychological Science A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=norton%20apfelbaum%202013.pdf August 2013 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The Cheater's High: The Unexpected Affective Benefits of Unethical Behavior By: Ruedy, N.E., C.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

duties by way of assigning moral agency to business enterprises, we would do better to provide an account of the purpose of the for-profit business enterprises that is not simply about the pursuit of profit. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behavior

By: Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman
It is common for people to be more critical of others' ethical choices than of their own. This chapter explores those remarkable circumstances in which people see no evil in others' unethical behavior. Specifically, we explore 1) the motivated tendency to overlook the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

Publications Blind Ethics: Closing One's Eyes Polarizes Moral Judgment and Discourages Dishonest Behavior Authors: E. M. Caruso and F. Gino Publication: Cognition (forthcoming) Abstract Four experiments demonstrate that closing one's eyes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

product. But from a four-drive point of view, this is a serious loss for American society. The economist Benjamin Friedman has found evidence that a steadily rising standard of living provides not only material benefits but also moral and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability

By: Julian De Freitas, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman and Luigi Di Lillo
The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the accompanying societal and economic benefits will greatly depend on how much liability AV firms will have to carry for accidents involving these vehicles, which in turn impacts their insurability and associated... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Judgments; Legal Liability; Insurance; Perception
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  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

literature in behavioral ethics and moral psychology on ordinary unethical behavior. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154615000443 April 2015 Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

global competition and cooperation; and altering the attitudes, values, motivations, aspirations, and fears of customers and employees. Perhaps most importantly, these changes have altered human societies, promising a coming decade of unpredictable and unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

principle, be instantly acquired, clarity may take time to develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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