We develop a theory of moral behavior, individual and collective, based on a general model
of identity in which people care about “who they are” and infer their own values from past …

Work leading to this book was supported by grants from the National Institute of Justice and
the Smith Richardson Foundation, and by sabbatical support provided by the UCLA …

This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring
impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data …

The existing literature has long assumed that unethical behaviors are fueled by competition.
Under this premise, rivalry and competition are often treated interchangeably. This study …

This article examines how a decision maker who is only partially aware of his temptations
learns about them over time. In facing temptations, individuals use their experience to …

We study how a benevolent expert should disclose information to an agent with
psychological concerns. We first provide a method to compute an optimal information policy …

This article surveys the theoretical literature in which people are modeled as taking other
people's payoffs into account either because this affects their utility directly or because they …

When an individual performs several tasks simultaneously, processing resources must be
allocated to different brain systems to produce energy for neurons to fire. Following the …

Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption
scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service …

To analyze these behaviors, we propose a simple model of how anticipatory or self-esteem
concerns lead to the inefficient breakdown of Coasian bargaining under symmetric …