Leeson/Barings scandal (involving the fraud that brought down Barings bank) to illustrate how inattentional blindness can … occur in a real-life fraud situation. We also provide additional material showing the relevance of inattentional blindness …

earnings conference calls as case materials. We randomly assign narratives of fraud and non-fraud companies to auditors as well … deception. We predict this instruction will weaken auditors' learned tendency to overlook fraud cues. We find that auditors …' deception judgments are less accurate for fraud companies than for non-fraud companies, unless they receive this instruction. We …