Since the conceptualization of unethical pro-organizational behavior ten years ago,
scholarly interest in exploring this phenomenon has multiplied. Given a burgeoning body of …

Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Samples drawn from commercial online panel data (OPD) are becoming more prevalent in
applied psychology research, but they remain controversial due to concerns with data …

Moral disengagement refers to a set of cognitive tactics people employ to sidestep moral self-
regulatory processes that normally prevent wrongdoing. In this study, we present a …

Using two 3-month diary studies and a large cross-sectional survey, we identified
distinguishing features of adults with low versus high levels of moral character. Adults with …

Integrating appraisal theories of emotion and the literature of self-conscious emotion, we
argue that UPB has a paradoxical nature that can lead to ambivalent emotional reactions …

The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

Guilt proneness is a personality trait indicative of a predisposition to experience negative
feelings about personal wrongdoing, even when the wrongdoing is private. It is …

Moral character can be conceptualized as an individual's disposition to think, feel, and
behave in an ethical versus unethical manner, or as the subset of individual differences …

The employee behavior literature is very much dominated by studies on “good” or “positive”
behaviors, but relatively little has been researched on the negative attitudes and behaviors …