What if you had to sign it just before filling out your expense reports?

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere.” The question is: where is the line?

This result suggests that cheating is not driven by concerns about standing out. Rather, it shows that our sense of our own morality is connected to the amount of cheating we feel comfortable with.

These results suggest that once someone (or some organization) does us a favor, we become partial to anything related to the giving party—and that the magnitude of this bias increases as the magnitude of the initial favor (in this case the amount of payment) increases.

Golfers and businesspeople must choose for themselves what they are willing and not willing to do, since most of the time there is no one else to supervise or check their work.

It seemed that merely trying to recall moral standards was enough to improve moral behavior.

By taking such steps, we can become more cognizant of the consequences of our actions and, with that awareness, increase our honesty.

I started wondering if the problem of dishonesty goes deeper than just a few bad apples and if this kind of wishful blindness takes place in other companies as well.

each of us has a limit to how much we can cheat before it becomes absolutely “sinful.”