Dishonesty in Everyday Life and Its Policy Implications

By Nina Mazar, Dan Ariely. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Who lies? A large-scale reanalysis linking basic personality traits to unethical decision making (2018, background): “On the societal level, dishonesty incurs substantial costs and thereby poses a major threat to society at large (Mazar & Ariely, 2006).”
Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature (2018, background): “These everyday dishonest acts thus appear to be quite common among ordinary people, but they impose massive costs on both organizations and society as a whole (Mazar and Ariely, 2006).”
Separating Will from Grace: An experiment on conformity and awareness in cheating (2013, background): “Every day the news reports about corporate frauds, tax evasion, theft and other kinds of unethical behavior (see Mazar and Ariely, 2006).”
Strategic conversation (2012, background): “A move that adds to the positive face of the interlocutor also looks good in the eyes of the judge and the jury (Sally (2001) and Mazar & Ariely (2006) echo similar themes by speaking of empathy with the prosecutor or a penchant to stay within social norms).”
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “Experiments with North Americans show that unconsciously activating religious concepts lead to reduced cheating and greater generosity toward strangers (Bargh and Chartrand 1999; Mazar and Ariely 2006; Shariff and Norenzayan 2007), except among ardent atheists.”
Financial deprivation selectively shifts moral standards and compromises moral decisions (2014, background): “Finally, our findings suggest considerable implications for people who interpret a wide range of laws and policies—those in judicial systems, corporations, and the economy at large (see also Amir et al., 2005; Mazar & Ariely, 2006).”
Opportunistic customer claiming during service recovery (2010, background): “People tend to be more dishonest when they deal with a wealthier counterpart and where the cost of deception appears low for that other party (Mazar and Ariely 2006).”
Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone (2015, background): “…who does not have any psychological impairments or is under cognitive load—the leader incurs some degree of psychological cost if his or her behavior violates social norms (see Kessler & Leider, 2012; Krupka & Weber, 2013; Mazar & Ariely, 2006; Mead, Baumeister, Gino, Schweitzer, & Ariely, 2009).”
Honesty on the Streets. A Field Study on Newspaper Purchasing (2013, background): “Mazar and Ariely (2006) provide an excellent overview of the importance of internalized reward mechanisms for the occurrence of honest and also dishonest behavior.”
Representative evidence on lying costs (2014, background): “The level of lying costs seems rather to be influenced by the context in which people are asked to report their type (see also Mazar and Ariely, 2006; Mazar et al., 2008).”