The prevailing viewpoint has long depicted employee time theft as inherently detrimental.
However, this perspective may stem from a limited understanding of the underlying motives …

In three experiments, we examined the cognitive underpinnings of self-serving dishonesty
by manipulating cognitive load under different incentive structures. Participants could …

Human actions often aim at triggering certain responses from social interaction partners, but
these responses do not always come as expected. Here we show that unexpected partner …

Performance is typically superior with modality-compatible stimulus–response sets (eg,
responding vocally to auditory stimuli and manually to visual stimuli) than with modality …

Definite determiners trigger existence-and uniqueness-presuppositions, that is, the speaker
assumes that it is taken for granted that there exists exactly one of the mentioned object in …

Understanding the cognitive processing mechanism of rule violation is required as the basis
for preventing rule violation and promoting rule compliance. Here, we review the cognitive …

Modern media report news remarkably fast, often before the information is confirmed. This
general tendency is even more pronounced in times of an increasing demand for …

In competitive situations, humans sometimes use fake actions. Fake actions are carried out
to pretend a certain action goal, which however is not actually pursued, such as pump fakes …

When telling a lie, humans might engage in stronger monitoring of their behavior than when
telling the truth. Initial evidence has indeed pointed towards a stronger recruitment of …

Via modern media, news can be shared in a matter of seconds, often even before its
contents are sufficiently confirmed. This tendency might be amplified if the demand for …