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Dark versus light personality types and moral choice

Dickinson, David L. - 2023

, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …

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Incorporating conditional morality into economic decisions

Masclet, David; Dickinson, David L. - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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Unethical decision making and sleep restriction: experimental evidence

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2021

Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision processes. We randomly assigned participants to a multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they...

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Using ethical dilemmas to predict antisocial choices with real payoff consequences : an experimental study

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018

Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...

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Personality, weak signals, and workplace relevant morality

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2024

Employers use applicant signals to help solve an asymmetric information problem in organizations. In this paper, we examine the impact of validated Dark versus Light personality traits on incentivized behaviors important to organizations: task effort, honesty, and reciprocity. A second study...

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Young women's religious affiliation and participation as determinants of high school completion

Lehrer, Evelyn L. (contributor) - 2005

The far-reaching consequences of failing to complete secondary schooling are well known. The central questions addressed in this study are: Does religion make a difference in the likelihood of successfully completing the transition to high-school graduation? If so, how large are the influences?...

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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability : evidence from the 2006-2008 national survey of family growth

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - 2011

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …

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Religious affiliation and participation as determinants of women's educational attainment and wages

Lehrer, Evelyn L. (contributor) - 2005

representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085743

Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability …. We find that for non-Hispanic white women, the probability of dissolution falls with age up to ages 30-32 and thereafter …

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