Self-reported ethical risk taking tendencies predict actual dishonesty

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-64

  Zimerman, Liora ^a   Shalvi, Shaul ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dishonesty; DOSPERT; Honesty; Lying; Risk taking; Unethical behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893090398     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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