The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth

By Francesca Gino, Lamar Pierce. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Safety Research

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Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty (2012, background): “Alternatively, scholars have used other types of ability-based tasks where they gave participants the opportunity to cheat by overstating their performance on the task (e.g., Schweitzer et al., 2004; Gino & Pierce, 2009).”
Understanding ordinary unethical behavior: why people who value morality act immorally (2015, positive): “Related research has found that the presence of graffiti leads not only to more littering but also to more theft [23], abundance of resources leads to increased unethical behavior [24], and darkness in a room increases dishonesty [25].”
Bringing ethics into focus: How regulatory focus and risk preferences influence (Un)ethical behavior (2011, methodology): “The first task was a modified version of Schweitzer, Ordóñez, and Douma’s (2004) anagram task (also used in Gino & Pierce, 2009a; Gino & Pierce, 2009b), in which participants were told to check their own work, thus giving them an opportunity to overstate their performance and engage in unethical…”
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom (2017, positive): “If historical income differences persist, they might explain the differences in rule following that we observe, especially given existing experimental evidence of the link between income and unethical behavior (e.g., Piff, Stancato, Cote, Mendoza-Denton and Keltner, 2012, Gino and Pierce, 2009).”
Blind loyalty? When group loyalty makes us see evil or engage in it (2016, background): “…belong but fear exclusion (Thau, Derfler-Rozin, Pitesa, Mitchell, & Pillutla, 2015); if they are in positions of positive inequity and feel guilty (Gino & Pierce, 2009); or if they hold utilitarian ethical beliefs and believe that the beneficiaries of their unethical acts hold similar beliefs…”
Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior (2011, background): “Introduction Banaji, 2005; Gino & Bazerman, 2009; Gino & Pierce, 2009; Kern 1 According to Fishbach and Converse (2010b), a stimulus is tempting only when considered in relation to another, higher-order goal that the individual considers to be Unethical acts can cause substantial damage to…”
Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature (2018, methodology): “The study found that raters tended to restore the initial inequality by over-reporting the performance of the low-income subjects and under-reporting the performance of the high-income subjects (Gino and Pierce, 2009a).”
Let’s be honest: A review of experimental evidence of honesty and truth-telling (2014, background): “Continuing the theme of social priming, Gino and Pierce (2009) documented that participants were more likely to overstate their performance on an anagram task in the presence of an abundantly wealthy other, arosing feelings of envy and inducing unethical behavior.”
Cheating more when the spoils are split (2011, background): “…of others can lead people to behave dishonestly when people feel empathy for, or a sense of connection with, the beneficiaries of that dishonesty (Gino & Pierce, 2009b, 2011), the present research proposes that such feelings toward the beneficiary need not exist for people to cheat more when…”
Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations (2015, background): “In other words, the poor acted to hurt the wealthy even when such actions also hurt the poor themselves (Gino and Pierce, 2009b).”
Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (2011, background): “Our results substantiate prior work showing that giving participants the opportunity to cheat led to higher levels of dishonesty (e.g., Gino & Pierce, 2009b; Mazar et al., 2008) and extend it by demonstrating a divergence in beliefs as measured by moral disengagement following unethical behavior.”
Employee Machiavellianism to Unethical Behavior (2017, methodology): “Consistent with past research (e.g., Gino & Pierce, 2009; Schweitzer et al., 2004), the participants were given the following rules: (a) All words must be English words, (b) a word must be at least two or more letters long, (c) you may not use proper nouns (e.g., Ed, Texas, Sue), (d) you cannot use…”