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Lucky, Competent, or Just a Cheat? Interactive Effects of Honesty-Humility and Moral Cues on Cheating Behavior.
10.1177/0146167217733071
000419377000002
29117784
Kleinlogel
E.P.
author
Dietz
J.
author
Antonakis
J.
author
article
2018-02
Personality & social psychology bulletin
1552-7433
0146-1672
journal
44
2
158-172
Despite substantial research on cheating, how and when individual predispositions figure into cheating behavior remains unclear. In Study 1, we investigated to what extent Honesty-Humility predicted cheating behavior. As expected, individuals high on Honesty-Humility were less likely to cheat than were individuals low on this trait. In Study 2, integrating arguments from personality research about traits with arguments from behavioral ethics about moral primes, we examined how Honesty-Humility and situational primes interacted to affect cheating. We found an interaction indicating that individuals high on Honesty-Humility consistently did not cheat much across situational primes, whereas individuals low on Honesty-Humility cheated more when exposed to immoral primes than when exposed to moral primes. Our research invites reflection about the interplay of individual differences in Honesty-Humility and situational cues in predicting cheating, including the design of anti-cheating systems and the context in which these person and situation factors interact.
Adult
Cues
Deception
Female
Humans
Male
Morals
Personality
Personality Inventory
Young Adult
Honesty-Humility
cheating
moral primes
performance
policy makers
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
University of Lausanne
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