Mulder, Laetitia B.; Jordan, Jennifer; Rink, Floor - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (2015) C, pp. 115-129
We examined the effects of specific and general rules on ethical decisions and demonstrated, across five studies, that … and punished or that people perceive no clear connection between general rules and the ethical decision, were ruled out …. General rules exerted some effect on ethical decisions. In fact, whereas specific rules failed to affect ethical decisions …