RT Journal Article
T1 Peer effects in unethical behavior: standing or reputation?
A1 Pascual Ezama, David
A1 Dunfield, Derek
A1 Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
A1 Prelec, Drazen
AB Recent empirical evidence shows that working in an unsupervised, isolated situation under competition, can increase dishonest behavior to achieve prestige. However, could working in a common space, in the presence of colleagues affect cheating? Here, we examine how familiar peer influence, supervision and social incentives affect worker performance and dishonest behavior. First, we show that working in the presence of peers is an effective mechanism to constrain honest/dishonest behavior compared to an isolated work situation (experiment 1). Second, we demonstrate that the mere suspicion of dishonesty from another peer is not enough to affect individual cheating behavior (experiment 2), suggesting that reputation holds great importance in a worker’s self-image acting as a strong social incentives. Third, we show that when the suspicion of dishonesty increases with multiple peers behaving dishonestly, the desire to increase standing is sufficient to nudge individuals’ behavior back to cheating at the same levels as isolated situations (experiment 3).
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2015
FD 2015-04-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23725
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23725
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025