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Professional identity can increase dishonesty

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  • Marie Claire Villeval

    (Marie Claire Villeval is at GATE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France. She is also a member of the CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence.)

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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," Nature, Nature, vol. 516(7529), pages 48-49, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:516:y:2014:i:7529:d:10.1038_nature14068
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14068
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    1. Gill, Andrej & Heinz, Matthias & Schumacher, Heiner & Sutter, Matthias, 2020. "Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry," IZA Discussion Papers 13583, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Andrej Gill & Matthias Heinz & Heiner Schumacher & Matthias Sutter, 2020. "Trustworthiness in the financial industry," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 022, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. 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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