Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter

P Gerlach, K Teodorescu - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Dishonesty has become a trending topic in the behavioral sciences. To quantify dishonest
behavior, various experimental paradigms have been introduced. These experimental …

Robots as moral advisors: The effects of deontological, virtue, and confucian role ethics on encouraging honest behavior

B Kim, R Wen, Q Zhu, T Williams… - Companion of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We examined how robots can successfully serve as moral advisors for humans. We
evaluated the effectiveness of moral advice grounded in deontological, virtue, and …

Does public service motivation truly predict dishonesty? Behavioural evidence from the private and public sectors

C Schott, R Bouwman - International Review of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of studies on the relationship between public service motivation and ethics is
increasing. Although research consistently finds evidence for a positive public service …

[HTML][HTML] Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior

A von Schenk, V Klockmann, JF Bonnefon, I Rahwan… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Humans, aware of the social costs associated with false accusations, are generally hesitant
to accuse others of lying. Our study shows how lie detection algorithms disrupt this social …

Gender differences in individual dishonesty profiles

A Muñoz García, B Gil-Gómez de Liaño… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dishonesty has an enormous impact on all aspects of our society. It causes huge financial
losses annually, so efforts to understand dishonest behavior have increased. However, one …

Is dishonesty normally distributed? Evidence from six behavioral experiments and a simulation study

Q Jiang, Y Zhang, Z Zhu, J Zhang, K Ding… - Personality and Individual …, 2023 - Elsevier
How does dishonesty differ among individuals? Some studies using lottery tasks implied that
people were more likely to be partially dishonest, whereas others suggested that most …

Seeing Through the Fog: The Ability to Resolve Ambiguity Reduces Dishonesty

M Puntiroli, S Kandul, V Bezençon… - Personality and Social …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Ambiguity acts as a veil that can help conceal and justify dishonest behavior. While an
individual's ability to disambiguate information in a task may help remove the veil of …

A behavioral ethics perspective on the theory of criminal law and punishment

H Dancig-Rosenberg, Y Feldman - Experiments in Moral and …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines how the field of behavioral ethics—the study of how people make
and perceive ethical decisions and behavior—could influence the theory and doctrine of …

Proud to Be Dishonest: Emotional Consequences of Altruistic Versus Egoistic Dishonesty

S Shuster, T Eyal, S Ayal… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We explore and demonstrate the anticipated and actual emotions that are experienced by
individuals who engage in dishonest behaviors that benefit others (altruistic dishonesty) …

Lie detection algorithms attract few users but vastly increase accusation rates

A von Schenk, V Klockmann, JF Bonnefon… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
People are not very good at detecting lies, which may explain why they refrain from accusing
others of lying, given the social costs attached to false accusations-both for the accuser and …