At the roots of corruption: a behavioral ethics approach

Project Information

Corruption Roots

Grant agreement ID: 637915

DOI 10.3030/637915

Project closed

EC signature date 13 August 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 500 000,00

EU contribution € 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry

Author(s): Nils C. Köbis; Nils C. Köbis; Luca Mossink
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106553

Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review

Author(s): Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Soraperra, Ivan; Weisel, Ori; Shalvi, Shaul
Published in: Psychological Bulletin, Issue 147, 2022, Page(s) 1241–1268, ISSN 0033-2909
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/bul0000349

Precision in a Seller’s Market: Round Asking Prices Lead to Higher Counteroffers and Selling Prices

Author(s): Margarita Leib, Nils C. Köbis, Marc Francke, Shaul Shalvi, Marieke Roskes
Published in: Management Science, 2020, ISSN 0025-1909
Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3570

Similarity increases collaborative cheating

Author(s): Bernd Irlenbusch, Thomas Mussweiler, David J. Saxler, Shaul Shalvi, Alexa Weiss
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Issue 178, 2020, Page(s) 148-173, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.06.022

What Provides Justification for Cheating-Producing or Observing Counterfactuals?

Author(s): Claudia Bassarak, Margarita Leib, Dorothee Mischkowski, Sabrina Strang, Andreas Glöckner, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Issue 30/4, 2017, Page(s) 964-975, ISSN 0894-3257
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2013

Taxing the Brain to Uncover Lying? Meta-analyzing the Effect of Imposing Cognitive Load on the Reaction-Time Costs of Lying

Author(s): Bruno Verschuere, Nils C. Köbis, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, David Rand, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2018, ISSN 2211-3681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.005

Honesty Speaks a Second Language

Author(s): Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Sayuri Hayakawa, Shaul Shalvi, Joanna D. Corey, Albert Costa, Boaz Keysar
Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018, ISSN 1756-8757
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12360

Ethical Free Riding: When Honest People Find Dishonest Partners

Author(s): Jörg Gross, Margarita Leib, Theo Offerman, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Psychological Science, 2018, Page(s) 095679761879648, ISSN 0956-7976
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0956797618796480

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

Author(s): Rainer M. Rilke, Amos Schurr, Rachel Barkan, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 7, 2016, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00113

Intuitive Honesty Versus Dishonesty: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Author(s): Nils C. Köbis, Bruno Verschuere, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, David Rand, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Issue 14/5, 2019, Page(s) 778-796, ISSN 1745-6916
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/1745691619851778

Requiem for a Nudge: Framing effects in nudging honesty

Author(s): Eugen Dimant, Gerben A. van Kleef, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Issue 172, 2020, Page(s) 247-266, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.02.015

Loss framing increases self-serving mistakes (but does not alter attention)

Author(s): Margarita Leib, Andrea Pittarello, Tom Gordon-Hecker, Shaul Shalvi, Marieke Roskes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Issue 85, 2019, Page(s) 103880, ISSN 0022-1031
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103880

Group moral discount: Diffusing blame when judging group members

Author(s): Sigal Vainapel, Ori Weisel, Ro'i Zultan, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Issue 32/2, 2019, Page(s) 212-228, ISSN 0894-3257
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2106

Uncertain lies: How payoff uncertainty affects dishonesty

Author(s): Jérémy Celse, Sylvain Max, Wolfgang Steinel, Ivan Soraperra, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, Issue 71, 2019, Page(s) 117-125, ISSN 0167-4870
Publisher: North-Holland Publ Co
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2018.09.003

Not taking responsibility: Equity trumps efficiency in allocation decisions.

Author(s): Tom Gordon-Hecker, Daniela Rosensaft-Eshel, Andrea Pittarello, Shaul Shalvi, Yoella Bereby-Meyer
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 146/6, 2017, Page(s) 771-775, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000273

Buy-one-get-one-free deals attract more attention than percentage deals

Author(s): Tom Gordon-Hecker, Andrea Pittarello, Shaul Shalvi, Marieke Roskes
Published in: Journal of Business Research, Issue 111, 2020, Page(s) 128-134, ISSN 0148-2963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.070

Dishonest helping and harming after (un)fair treatment

Author(s): Margarita Leib, Simone Moran, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Judgment and Decision Making, 2019, ISSN 1930-2975
Publisher: Society for Judgment and Decision Making

The bad consequences of teamwork

Author(s): Ivan Soraperra, Ori Weisel, Ro’i Zultan, Sys Kochavi, Margarita Leib, Hadar Shalev, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Economics Letters, 2017, ISSN 0165-1765
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.08.011

Explaining corrupt collaboration

Author(s): Ori Weisel; Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Current Opinion in Psychology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2352-250X
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.034

The implicit honesty premium: Why honest advice is more persuasive than highly informed advice.

Author(s): Uriel Haran, Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 149/4, 2020, Page(s) 757-773, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000677

Leaving with something: When do people experience an equity–efficiency conflict?

Author(s): Tom Gordon‐Hecker, Iris K. Schneider, Shaul Shalvi, Yoella Bereby‐Meyer
Published in: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2020, ISSN 0894-3257
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2205

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Corruption corrupts

Author(s): Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Nature, Issue 531/7595, 2016, Page(s) 456-457, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature17307

Financial temptation increases civic honesty

Author(s): Shaul Shalvi
Published in: Science, Issue 365/6448, 2019, Page(s) 29-30, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aax5034