Two studies examined how individual differences relate to prejudiced attitudes toward asylum seekers. Results consistently showed that people had relatively low scores on Honesty-Humility and high the Dark Tetrad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) ideological beliefs (social dominance orientation, patriotism, nationalism). More importantly, multiple regression analyses...

This paper describes different elements leading to the success of cooperatives formed by indigenous Maya women of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. These elements have shown to facilitate the sustainability (permanence over time) of the cooperatives and their presence in the market, while improving the work environment and enhancing the practice of honesty. All these elements have generated an i...

Transparency and observability have been shown to foster ethical decision-making as people tend comply with an underlying norm for honesty. However, in situations implying a social dishonesty, this might be different. In die-rolling experiment, we investigate whether can also detrimental effects. We thus introduce nudge toward honesty or dishonesty make participants’ decisions observable open t...

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism is a core aspect of medical education and practice worldwide. Medical professionalism must be reinterpreted to adapt to different social/cultural/historical contexts. We conducted a survey to examine the current understanding and perceived value of medical professionalism among Korean physicians. METHODS The survey was distributed to 950 physicians nationwid...

We examined the unique effects of extraversion and agreeableness (and honesty-humility) on everyday satisfaction with family, friends, romantic life, and acquaintances, and explored potential mediators of these effects. Three diary studies (Ns = 206, 139, 185) were conducted on Singaporean university students. In Studies 1 and 2, participants rated their satisfaction with different relationship...

The effectiveness of cheap talk advice is examined in recurrent relationships between a customer and multiple experts who provide differentiated professional services. The main findings are: (i) Full honesty is not sustainable if the profitability of service provision varies widely across problems. (ii) As there are more experts due to finer specialization, the maximum equilibrium honesty level...

Patients with cancer comprise 40%–100% of patients seen by those working in hospice and palliative medicine around the world. Consequently, the skills of oncologists in integrating palliative care and making appropriate referrals for hospice care have been a subject of intense interest since the inception of the field. Most are aware that oncologists routinely assist patients in making difficul...

Morality is a prominent guide of both action and perception. We argue that non-emotional gestures can prime the abstract concept of honesty. Four studies demonstrated that the emblematic gesture associated with honesty (putting a hand on one's heart) increased the level of honesty perceived by others, and increased the honesty shown in one's own behavior. Target persons performing this gesture ...

We consider full implementation in abstract complete-information environments when agents have an arbitrarily small preference for honesty. We offer a condition called separable punishment and show that when it holds and there are at least two agents, any social choice function can be implemented by a simple mechanism in two rounds of iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies. We also ...