TY - JOUR
T1 - May the odds — or your personality — be in your favor
T2 - Probability of observing a favorable outcome, honesty-humility, and dishonest behavior
AU - Schild, Christoph
AU - Moshagen, Morten
AU - Ścigała, Karolina A.
AU - Zettler, Ingo
N1 - Funding Information:
This investigation was funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation (CF16-0444) to the last author. Copyright: © 2020. The authors license this article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. ∗Department of Psychology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. ORCID: 0000-0002-6668-5773. †Ulm University. ORCID: 0000-0002-2929-7288. ‡University of Copenhagen. ORCID: 0000-0003-4689-0697. §University of Copenhagen. ORCID: 0000-0001-6140-7160.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the light of the potential negative consequences of dishonest behaviors for individuals and societies, researchers from different disciplines have aimed to investigate situation and person factors shaping the occurrence and extent of such behaviors. The present study investigates the roles of a situation factor, the baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome, and a person factor, trait Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO Model of Personality, in shaping dishonest behavior. Next to main effects, a person-situation interaction between these factors was tested. Across three studies with 5,297 participants overall, we find that a higher baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome and lower levels in Honesty-Humility are linked to more dishonest behavior, whereas there was no strong evidence for an interaction between these factors. By testing the assumed effects in two different cheating paradigms, this study additionally allows to disentangle previously found effects of (a) the distance between an observed and the favorable outcome and (b) the baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome.
AB - In the light of the potential negative consequences of dishonest behaviors for individuals and societies, researchers from different disciplines have aimed to investigate situation and person factors shaping the occurrence and extent of such behaviors. The present study investigates the roles of a situation factor, the baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome, and a person factor, trait Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO Model of Personality, in shaping dishonest behavior. Next to main effects, a person-situation interaction between these factors was tested. Across three studies with 5,297 participants overall, we find that a higher baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome and lower levels in Honesty-Humility are linked to more dishonest behavior, whereas there was no strong evidence for an interaction between these factors. By testing the assumed effects in two different cheating paradigms, this study additionally allows to disentangle previously found effects of (a) the distance between an observed and the favorable outcome and (b) the baseline probability of observing a favorable outcome.
KW - Baseline probability
KW - Cheating
KW - Dishonesty
KW - Honesty-Humility
KW - Person-situation interaction
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M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85090823225
SN - 1930-2975
VL - 15
SP - 600
EP - 610
JO - Judgment and Decision Making
JF - Judgment and Decision Making
IS - 4
ER -