Temporal view of the costs and benefits of self-deception

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 15655-15659

  Chance, Zoë ^a   Norton, Michael I ^a   Gino, Francesca ^a   Ariely, Dan ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindsight bias; Lying; Motivated reasoning; Self enhancement

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEPTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MISCONDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80053161086     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010658108     Document Type: Article

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