Hypocrisy is the act of claiming moral standards to which one's own behavior does not conform. Instances of hypocrisy, such as the supposedly green furnishing group IKEA's selling of furniture made from illegally felled wood, are frequently reported in the media. In a controlled and incentivized...

Dark personality traits have been linked to behaviors commonly understood as unethical, such as fraud, bribe-taking, and marital infidelity. Presumably, more "light" personality traits may be associated with lesser tendencies to be unethical, but many individuals also possess both light and dark...

We investigate bargaining processes with two opponent parties, each consisting of two subjects. The parties negotiate about the distribution of a certain amount of money. The sum of the payoffs of the four subjects is not constant. The payoff situations are asymmetric. Between the two parties,...