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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531925
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Honest on mondays : honesty and the temporal distance between decisions and payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossi - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727578
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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? : the case of self-selected student samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130550
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Measuring costly effort using the slider task
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2018
Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved differences between subjects in the cost of real effort make quantitative prediction problematic. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816700
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Dishonesty under scrutiny
Ven, Jeroen van de; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436165
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is … order to obtain a higher payoff. A sender is positively biased if he thinks that he is higher in the deception distribution … information about the deception of his peers. The experimental data confirm this. We conclude that concern for relative standing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404042
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Cooperation, punishment and organized crime : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458326
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The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414338
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Loss aversion and lying behavior : theory, estimation and empirical evidence
Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594148
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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a large-scale correspondence test in...
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