Mathematical foundations of moral preferences

V Capraro, M Perc - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One-shot anonymous unselfishness in economic games is commonly explained by social
preferences, which assume that people care about the monetary pay-offs of others …

The truth about lies: A meta-analysis on dishonest behavior.

P Gerlach, K Teodorescu, R Hertwig - Psychological bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Online cheating amid COVID-19

E Bilen, A Matros - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
We present evidence of cheating that took place in online examinations during COVID-19
lockdowns and propose two solutions with and without a camera for the cheating problem …

The bright side of being prosocial at work, and the dark side, too: A review and agenda for research on other-oriented motives, behavior, and impact in organizations

MC Bolino, AM Grant - Academy of Management Annals, 2016 - journals.aom.org
More than a quarter century ago, organizational scholars began to explore the implications
of prosociality in organizations. Three interrelated streams have emerged from this work …

Lying aversion and the size of the lie

U Gneezy, A Kajackaite, J Sobel - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies lying. An agent randomly picks a number from a known distribution. She
can then report any number and receive a monetary payoff based only on her report. The …

Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies

S Gächter, JF Schulz - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Deception is common in nature and humans are no exception. Modern societies have
created institutions to control cheating, but many situations remain where only intrinsic …

The gender gap in self-promotion

CL Exley, JB Kessler - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

Self-serving justifications: Doing wrong and feeling moral

S Shalvi, F Gino, R Barkan… - Current directions in …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Unethical behavior by “ordinary” people poses significant societal and personal challenges.
We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon …

Testing the waters: Behavior across participant pools

E Snowberg, L Yariv - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire
undergraduate university student population, a representative sample of the US population …

Experimental methods: Pay one or pay all

G Charness, U Gneezy, B Halladay - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2016 - Elsevier
In some experiments participants make multiple decisions; this feature facilitates gathering a
considerable amount of incentivized data over the course of a compact session. A …