Welcome to the Behavioral Ethics Bookshelf

Explore the digital office of a behavioral compliance expert with this curated list of books, articles, and resources for all things behavioral ethics and compliance.

Books | Quick Reads | Deep Dive

Go deeper than a popular book and try these quick reads—short articles written by academics, practitioners, and journalists that will get you into the behavioral compliance space with minimal effort. Each article is tagged so you know what it’s about and how it relates to other research.

Quick Reads by Todd Haugh

  • The Trouble with Corporate Compliance Programs

    MIT Sloan Management Review | By Todd Haugh

    Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Practical, Rationalizations, System 1&2

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  • The Ethics of Intracorporate Behavioral Ethics

    California Law Review | By Todd Haugh

    Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Nudges, System 1&2, Conceptual

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  • “Cadillac Compliance” Breakdown

    Stanford Law Review | By Todd Haugh

    Behavioral Compliance, Rationalizations, Conceptual, Practical

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  • Behavioral Ethics and Rationalizations

    Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics | By Todd Haugh

    Behavioral Ethics, Rationalizations

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  • Behavioral Ethics and Euphemisms

    Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics | By Todd Haugh

    Behavioral Ethics, Rationalizations

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  • Nudging: A Very Short Guide

    Journal of Consumer Policy | By Cass Sunstein

    Nudges, Behavioral Economics, Judgement and Decision Making

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  • A New Framing for Behavioural Science

    Substack | By Frontline BeSci

    Conceptual

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  • A Manifesto for applying Behavioural Science

    Journal of Nature Human Behavior | By Michael Hallsworth

    Behavioral Ethics, Conceptual

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  • Case Study: How to Apply Behavioral Science and Employee Co-Creation to Reimagine Compliance and Ethics

    By Gartner

    Behavioral Ethics, White Paper, Culture

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  • A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct

    Harvard Business Review | By Lynn Paine

    Culture, Behavioral Ethics, Empirical

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  • The Psychology of Financial Professionals and Their Clients

    Investments & Wealth Monitor | By Kent Baker

    Behavioral Ethics, Practical, Prospect, Confirmation

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  • Behavioral Compliance: How to Stop ‘Good People’ From Doing Bad Things

    Reuters | By Henry Engler

    Behavioral Compliance, Practical

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  • Crediting the Behavioral Approach

    New York University School of Law | By Timothy J. Lindon

    Behavioral Compliance, Practical, Measuring Compliance

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  • Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally

    Science Direct | By Francesca Gino

    Behavioral Ethics, Conceptual, Bounded Ethicality

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  • Leaders as Decision Architects

    Harvard Business Review | By John Beshears and Francesca Gino

    Behavioral Ethics, Conceptual, Practical, System 1&2, Bounded Ethicality, Debiasing

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  • Teaching Ethics, Heuristics, and Biases

    Journal of Business Ethics Education | By Robert Prentice

    Behavioral Ethics, Social Influence, Overconfidence, Prospect, Conceptual

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  • Treating Ethics as a Design Problem

    Behavioral Science & Policy Association | By Nicholas Epley and David Tannenbaum

    Behavioral Ethics, Practical

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  • Rule-Breaking Without Crime: Insights from Behavioral Ethics for the Study of Everyday Deviancy

    SSRN | By Yuval Feldman, Benjamin van Rooij, Melissa Rorie

    Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality, Law & Regs

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  • Behavioral Ethics as Compliance

    SSRN | By Yuval Feldman and Yotam Kaplan

    Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Conceptual, Practical, Debiasing

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  • Using Behavioral Ethics to Curb Corruption

    BSPA | By Yuval Feldman

    Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Conceptual, Practical, Nudges, Debiasing, Law & Regs

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  • Companies Need to Pay More Attention to Everyday Unethical Behavior

    Harvard Business Review | By Yuval Feldman

    Behavioral Compliance, Practical

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  • Behavioural Ethics – Don’t Rely Solely on Good Intentions

    CSJ | By Jeffery M. Kaplan

    Behavioral Ethics, Practical, Conflicts

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  • Are You as Ethical as You Think?

    Ethical Boardroom | By Jeffrey M. Kaplan and Rebecca Walker

    Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Practical, Conflicts

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  • Behavioral Ethics: From Nudges to Norms

    BCLP Law | By Scott Killingsworth

    Behavioral Ethics, Practical, Nudges

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  • How Unethical Behavior Becomes Habit

    Harvard Business Review | By Francesca Gino, Lisa D. Ordóñez, and David Welsh

    Behavioral Ethics, Practical, Nudges, Rationalizations

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  • The Social Construction of Corruption

    Stanford University | By Mark Granovetter

    Conceptual, Social Influence, Network, Rationalizations

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  • Behavioral Ethics: How Psychology Influenced Economics and How Economics Might Inform Psychology?

    HAL Open Science | By Bernd Irlenbuscha and Marie Claire Villeval

    Behavioral Ethics, Conceptual

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  • Self-Interest, Automaticity, and the Psychology of Conflict of Interest

    CMU | By Don A. Moore and George Loewenstein

    Conflicts, Conceptual, System 1&2

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  • Basic Social Influence is Underestimated

    JSTOR | By Robert B. Cialdini

    Conceptual, Social Influence

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 Anything to add? Have a quick read that belongs here?