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Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations

2024-10-31

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<p>A fundamental assumption about human behavior forming the backbone of trait theories is that, to some extent, individuals behave consistently across structurally comparable situations. However, especially for unethical behavior, the consistency assumption has been severely questioned, at least from the early 19th century onwards. We provide a strict test of the consistency assumption for a prominent instance of...

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Literature Corpus work: 2117d4b2-5fad-5dd8-b0aa-6f45d345c462
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ntg6c

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