John, Leslie K.; Loewenstein, George; Rick, Scott I. - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123 (2014) 2, pp. 101-109
Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay-rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay-rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents or 25 cents per...