Mulder, Laetitia B.; Jordan, Jennifer; Rink, Floor - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (2015) C, pp. 115-129
We examined the effects of specific and general rules on ethical decisions and demonstrated, across five studies, that … specifically-framed rules elicited ethical decisions more strongly than generally-framed rules. The effectiveness of specific rules … and punished or that people perceive no clear connection between general rules and the ethical decision, were ruled out …