Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making
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Between me and we : The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. / Klein, S. A.; Thielmann, Isabel; Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Zettler, Ingo.
I: Judgment and Decision Making, Bind 12, Nr. 6, 11.2017, s. 563-571.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Between me and we
T2 - The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making
AU - Klein, S. A.
AU - Thielmann, Isabel
AU - Hilbig, Benjamin E.
AU - Zettler, Ingo
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Current theories of dishonest behavior suggest that both individual profits and the availability of justifications drive cheating. Although some evidence hints that cheating behavior is most prevalent when both self-profit and social justifications are present, the relative impact of each of these factors is insufficiently understood. This study provides a fine-grained analysis of the trade-off between self-profit versus social justifiability. In a non-student online sample, we assessed dishonest behavior in a coin-tossing task, involving six conditions which systematically varied both self-profit and social justifiability (in terms of social welfare), such that a decrease in the former was associated with the exact same increase in the latter. Results showed that self-profit outweighed social justifiability, but that there was also an effect of social justifications
AB - Current theories of dishonest behavior suggest that both individual profits and the availability of justifications drive cheating. Although some evidence hints that cheating behavior is most prevalent when both self-profit and social justifications are present, the relative impact of each of these factors is insufficiently understood. This study provides a fine-grained analysis of the trade-off between self-profit versus social justifiability. In a non-student online sample, we assessed dishonest behavior in a coin-tossing task, involving six conditions which systematically varied both self-profit and social justifiability (in terms of social welfare), such that a decrease in the former was associated with the exact same increase in the latter. Results showed that self-profit outweighed social justifiability, but that there was also an effect of social justifications
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - dishonest behavior
KW - cheating
KW - social justification
KW - self-profit
KW - social welfare
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 563
EP - 571
JO - Judgment and Decision Making
JF - Judgment and Decision Making
SN - 1930-2975
IS - 6
ER -
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