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 …

Over the last decade, a massive body of research has been devoted to uncovering human
dishonesty. In the present paper, we review more than a hundred papers from this literature …

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 …

Open networks give actors non-redundant information that is diverse, while closed networks
offer redundant information that is easier to interpret. Integrating arguments about network …

Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in
organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …

Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real-effort matrix
task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance …

Occasionally, people trade monetary gains for moral costs and engage in dishonest
behavior. Based on research showing that people react more sensitively toward a possible …

The self-concept maintenance theory holds that many people will cheat in order to maximize
self-profit, but only to the extent that they can do so while maintaining a positive self-concept …

This paper experimentally analyzes the role of individual social value orientation (SVO) on
honest behavior. We focus on a situation where dishonest behavior pays off at somebody …