Do groups lie more than individuals? Honesty and deception as a function of strategic self-interest

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1321-1324

  Cohen, Taya R ^a   Gunia, Brian C ^a   Kim Jun, Sun Young ^a   Murnighan, J Keith ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deception; Ethics; Groups; Honesty; Interindividual intergroup discontinuity; Morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350335048     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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