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Professional identity can increase dishonesty

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  • Marie Claire Villeval

    (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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An experiment shows that although bank employees behave honestly on average, their dishonesty increases when they make decisions after having been primed to think about their professional identity. See Letter p.86
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  • Marie Claire Villeval, 2014. "Professional identity can increase dishonesty," Post-Print halshs-01089693, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01089693
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14068
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    1. Heinz, Matthias & Gill, Andrej & Schumacher, Heiner & Sutter, Matthias, 2020. "Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers 15147, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Andrej Gill & Matthias Heinz & einer Schumacher & Matthias Sutter, 2020. "Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry," Working Papers 2020-28, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
    3. Irlenbusch, Bernd & Mussweiler, Thomas & Saxler, David J. & Shalvi, Shaul & Weiss, Alexa, 2020. "Similarity increases collaborative cheating," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 148-173.
    4. Gill, Andrej & Heinz, Matthias & Schumacher, Heiner & Sutter, Matthias, 2020. "Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry," IZA Discussion Papers 13583, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Andrej Gill & Matthias Heinz & Heiner Schumacher & Matthias Sutter, 2023. "Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(7), pages 3905-3919, July.
    6. Bernd Irlenbusch & Marie Claire Villeval, 2015. "Behavioral ethics: how psychology influenced economics and how economics might inform psychology?," Post-Print halshs-01159696, HAL.

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