HUMA 1745 Chapter 14: HUMA 1745 Chapter 14 Notes
1 May 2018
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HUMA 1745 Chapter 14 Notes – Summary
Introduction
What makes individuals decide to cheat?
• We all have cheated at something.
• We could assume that deciding to cheat is a product of cold hard calculus
• Is the benefit of cheating worth the cost?
• Research shows, however, that cheating is less rational than expected.
• Several 2012 research projects yield the following insights about how organizations can
stem cheating and other unethical behaviour
• Cheating happens away from the cash.
• One study found that people steal more when they are a couple of steps removed from
the cash.
• For eaple, oe galler’s gift shop was heorrhagig oe, but the reaso was that
volunteers were helping themselves to merchandise, not the cash drawer.
• Similarly, when researchers put six packs of Coke and six $1 bills in dorm fridges, every
Coke was gone within 72 hours, but none of the cash.
• Cheating is contagious.
• A study of high school students in upper-middle-class communities revealed that among
the 93 percent who admitted to cheating, the top reason was the pervasiveness of
cheating by others.
• A recent study of accounting undergraduates revealed that cheating was most likely
among students who reported having recently seen cheating and having friends who
cheated.
• Moods affect cheating.
• Research shows that people cheat more when they are angry or tired.
• This insight reveals another positive dividend of trying to reduce negative moods at
work, as we discussed
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