Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1289-1308

  Cohn, Alain ^a   Maréchal, Michel André ^b   Noll, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Prison Staff Training Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crime; Dishonesty; Experiment; Identity; Prison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943766257     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdv025     Document Type: Article

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