We examine the incentives of socially responsible firms, relative to a set of control firms, to engage in earnings management. We measure socially responsible behavior using various proxies of corporate social responsibility, and earnings management using abnormal levels of accruals, cash flows,...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we capture neural activity in the ventral striatum — a key area in the human brain's reward processing circuit — of 35 adult investors learning the earnings per share disclosed by 60 publicly traded companies. Before imaging, investors forecasted...