Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making

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Between me and we : The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. / Klein, S. A.; Thielmann, Isabel; Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Zettler, Ingo.

In: Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 12, No. 6, 11.2017, p. 563-571.

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Klein, SA, Thielmann, I, Hilbig, BE & Zettler, I 2017, 'Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making', Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 563-571. <http://journal.sjdm.org/17/17908b/jdm17908b.pdf>

APA

Klein, S. A., Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (2017). Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(6), 563-571. http://journal.sjdm.org/17/17908b/jdm17908b.pdf

Vancouver

Klein SA, Thielmann I, Hilbig BE, Zettler I. Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. Judgment and Decision Making. 2017 Nov;12(6):563-571.

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Klein, S. A. ; Thielmann, Isabel ; Hilbig, Benjamin E. ; Zettler, Ingo. / Between me and we : The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. In: Judgment and Decision Making. 2017 ; Vol. 12, No. 6. pp. 563-571.

Bibtex

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abstract = "Current theories of dishonest behavior suggest that both individual profits and the availability of justifications drive cheating. Although some evidence hints that cheating behavior is most prevalent when both self-profit and social justifications are present, the relative impact of each of these factors is insufficiently understood. This study provides a fine-grained analysis of the trade-off between self-profit versus social justifiability. In a non-student online sample, we assessed dishonest behavior in a coin-tossing task, involving six conditions which systematically varied both self-profit and social justifiability (in terms of social welfare), such that a decrease in the former was associated with the exact same increase in the latter. Results showed that self-profit outweighed social justifiability, but that there was also an effect of social justifications",
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