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why honest people do dishonest things

a failure to anticipate an ethical decision makes men and women more likely to lie or cheat.

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by Jessica schmerler | may 22,2015

every day we are bombarded with temptations? To cheat on our diets, to spend instead of save our paychecks, To tell little white lies.it can be exhausting to have to continually remind ourselves that, long-term, we want to be up standing Pei T make tempting but unethical short-term decisions.but what if simply thinking about dishonesty could make it easier for us to behave ethics This novel possibility comes from a set of studies published may 22 in the personality and social psychology bulletin, Which demonstrate that anticipating temptation decreases the likelihood of a person engaging in poor behavior.

in Thich Lead researcher Oliver Sheldon, a specialist in organization al behavior at Rutgers university, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, A social psychologist at the university of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self-control in ethical decision- A potential solution to curb dishonesty,? According to Francesca Gino, A behavioral scientist at Harvard business school who was not involved in the work.

Sheldon and fish Bach designed three experiments to investigate thoughts that occur to people just before they make an ethical decies They recorded the behavior of groups of participants during an exerci

Se after the individuals were given different combinations of prompts designed to activate thoughts of either past temptation or social and moral ining We predicted, and found, that such forewarning? Helps people better prepare to proactively counteract the influence of impending ethical temptations on their behavior? Sheldon says ..

in the first experiment, 196 business school students were designated as buyers (realtors) With sellers being told to sell only to buyers who would preserve the homes and buyers being told to conceal the fact their clients would tear down th E homes.before interacting with one another, half the participants in each group were prompted to write about a time they felt tempted to? Bend the rules? And the other half were prompted to write about an arbitrary neutral topic, Namely a time when having a back-up plan aided in a negotiation.as the buyers were the group that faced an ethical conflict in the interaction Theirs was the behavior under analysis.of the buyers, 67 percent of those who had not been asked to reflect on unethical behavior lied in order to close the deal, As compared to 45 percent of those who were reminded of temptation.

in the second experiment, 75 college students web 쇼트? And? 롱? On either side, to determine whether they had to proofread

Short or long passages of text.before the exercise, The students were divided into two groups and given the same writing assignments as in the buyer-seller experiment.the two groups were furts D in half, with one half of each group being told that at their stages of life a person? S values, life goals and personalities are stable; The other half were told that these personal elements can change. by adding this twist to the experiment, The researchers wanted participants to think about how their actions during the exercise could be indicative of their future selves.students ww Thought about temptation and were told their traits were stable were honest about the outcome of their coin flips, Whereas most of the remaining participants lied about the outcome in order to do less work.clearly, thinking ahead served to prepare people Provided it was combined with thinking about moral integrity.

in the final experiment ， The researchers showed 161 online participants six workplace scenarios in which an employee might be tempted to behave un ethically, Suchas stealing office supplies.once again, The participants completed one of the same writing assignments used in the previous experiments and then were shown the six scenarios either all at on Ce (suggesting that just one unethical decision would be made, thus the behav

Ior constituted an isolated incident) or on six separate screens (suggesting unethical behavior would be a recurring event) . participants who recalled grappling with temptation and considered the scenarios all at once were significantly less inclined to support unethe Rk place behavior than those in the other groups.the results of this experiment suggest a similar conclusion to that of the second experiment? That thinking ahead and thinking of moral integrity keeps people honest.

in considering the results of the three expering A distinct pattern emerged： First, people who recall previous wrong doing seem a little less likely to repeat their mistakes; The researchers believe this exercise causes subjects to better? 안티파스? Temptation.but this effect is not an absolute preventative against dishonesty.the second part of the pattern is that even if people anticity Ation, they are less likely to resist if they think their decision will have no impact on their future integrity, social acceptance, Or self-image.the first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self-control, whereas the second part is? Consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,? Notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an ethicist at Mendoza college of business who was not part of the study.

another researcher not

O, a behavioral psychologist at ben-gurion university of the Negev in Israel, proposes that the mechanism behind ethical decision- Make moral standards more salient and in turn decrease dishonesty? He points out that thoughts of previous dishonesty might create a sense of guilt that influences people to behave ethically in an attempt to make up f Or past wrong doing.

so why do good people do bad things? This new research suggests that the answer could be as simple as a lack of anticipation of conflict and temptation.dan ariely, A behavioral economist at duke university, says the results fit with research by him and others on the idea that seemingly honest people are dishot Only because of a kind of? Wishful blindness,? When we don? T pay attention to our thoughts?

this area of research could someday pave the way for more practical interventions that could help ensure that ethical decisions are Study, participants had to complete a writing assignment to induce the anticipation that influenced their behavior.unfortunately, This method is time-consuming and thus impractical for use in day-to-day life.but it does offer a few lessons that could apply to hohoo Making decisions.so the next time you are facing an ethical challenge, stop to think about the person you

Were, the person you are, and the person you want to be. in the words of Warren Buffett,? It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.if you think about that, you? Ll do things differently? < /p >