Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Norms prescribe how to make decisions in social situations and play a crucial role in
sustaining cooperative relationships and coordinating collective action. However, following …

What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves
attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact …

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

This paper studies lying. An agent randomly picks a number from a known distribution. She
can then report any number and receive a monetary payoff based only on her report. The …

Deception is common in nature and humans are no exception. Modern societies have
created institutions to control cheating, but many situations remain where only intrinsic …

Unethical behavior by “ordinary” people poses significant societal and personal challenges.
We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon …

A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience
discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this …

People may repeatedly encounter the same misinformation when it “goes viral.” The results
of four main experiments (two preregistered) and a pilot experiment (total N= 2,587) suggest …

Air pollution is a serious problem that affects billions of people globally. Although the
environmental and health costs of air pollution are well known, the present research …