justifications

Lies that feel honest: Dissociating between incentive and deviance processing when evaluating dishonesty

This study investigated neural responses to evaluations of lies made by others. Participants learned about other individuals who were instructed to privately roll a die twice and report the outcome of the first roll to determine their pay (with …

One-by-One or All-at-Once? Self-Reporting Policies and Dishonesty

Organizational monitoring relies frequently on self-reports (e.g., work hours, progress reports, travel expenses). A “one-by-one” policy requires employees to submit a series of reports (e.g., daily or itemized reports). An “all-at-once” policy …

Self-Serving Justifications

Unethical behavior by “ordinary” people poses significant societal and personal challenges. We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon and advance the rapidly expanding research on intentional …

Honesty requires time — a reply to Foerster et al. (2013)