Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting

By Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino, Max H. Bazerman. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011

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

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Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass (2012, methodology): “This scale, developed by Shu, Gino, and Bazerman (2011), includes six items measuring people’s attitudes about cheating (e.g., ‘‘Sometimes getting ahead of the curve is more important than adhering to rules,’’ and ‘‘Cheating is appropriate behavior because no one gets hurt’’).”
Moral disengagement of hotel guest negative WOM: moral identity centrality, moral awareness, and anger. (2014, methodology): “in studying similar research issue (Aquino et al. 2007; Shu et al. 2011).”
My Boss is Morally Disengaged: The Role of Ethical Leadership in Explaining the Interactive Effect of Supervisor and Employee Moral Disengagement on Employee Behaviors (2016, background): “whereby moral disengagement produces higher levels of unethical behavior and vice versa (Bandura 1986; Shu et al. 2011).”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “We usually like to think of ourselves as virtuous agents, so when we invariably slip up, we must convince ourselves that we’re not so bad (Chance, Norton, Gino, & Ariely, 2011; Shu, Gino, & Bazerman, 2011).”
Opportunism as a Firm and Managerial Trait: Predicting Insider Trading Profits and Misconduct (2017, background): “Furthermore, individuals who have engaged in unethical or criminal behavior in the past tend to rationalize their behavior via moral disengagement and motivated forgetting ( Shu et al., 2011 ).”
Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: How Moral Decoupling Enables Consumers to Admire and Admonish (2013, background): “When there is sufficient ambiguity around the nature or interpretation of an immoral action, people are likely to interpret this action in a way that supports a desired outcome (e.g., Dana, Weber, and Kuang 2007; Mazar et al. 2008; Shu et al. 2011).”
Unethical use of wildlife in tourism: what's the problem, who is responsible, and what can be done? (2017, background): “The effectiveness of such ethical codes varies with their construction and implementation (e.g. Fennell, 2006, p. 242–243), but Shu et al. (2011), for example, demonstrated that moral disengagement can be forestalled by honour codes that increase people’s awareness of ethical standards – and that…”
Understanding the Interplay Among Regulatory Self-Efficacy, Moral Disengagement, and Academic Cheating Behaviour During Vocational Education: A Three-Wave Study (2018, result): “Overall, this reciprocal path has been generally overlooked, although there is some evidence supporting it, such as the study conducted by Shu et al. (2011) finding that MD is a ‘behavioural consequence’ of cheating.”
Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature (2018, background): “2.5 Moral Disengagement In line with Nisan’s theory of moral balance and his limited morality thesis (Nisan, 1991), Shu et al. (2011) examine how people are able to deviate from morally correct behaviour while not feeling guilty.”
Understanding Employee Responses to Stressful Information Security Requirements: A Coping Perspective (2014, methodology): “Other researchers have employed a similar approach in selecting only relevant items in adapting this scale to a new context [21, 59].”