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Ethics

Everything on this site about ethics — each one naming the study behind it.

You judge the morality of an action by its success.
Observers systematically rate the quality of a decision based on whether it produced a positive or negative outcome.…
You are more likely to lie when you feel moral.
Mazar and Zhong (2010) found that individuals who performed or recalled virtuous actions, such as buying eco-friendly …
You are more likely to lie when the incentive is small.
Research indicates that the level of dishonesty is largely independent of the magnitude of the reward.…
You are more likely to lie when you feel anonymous.
Deindividuation reduces the internalized social norms that typically constrain honesty.…
You feel less guilty when you choose inaction.
Humans assign more moral weight to active harm than passive neglect.…
You judge inaction more leniently than harmful action.
The omission bias is the tendency to view harmful inaction as less morally wrong than harmful action with the same out…
You subconsciously blame victims to preserve your sense of order.
The just-world hypothesis is the tendency to believe that people get what they deserve, even in cases of random misfor…
You only cheat when you can justify it to yourself.
A 2008 study found that participants were less likely to cheat when asked to recall the Ten Commandments, but cheated …