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Valuing Corporate Compliance. 109 Iowa Law Review 541, 2024.
Nudging Diversity: Merging Law and Behavioral Science to Reduce Workplace Discrimination and Increase Diversity. 74 Emory Law Journal 249, 2025.
Retheorizing Compliance. UC Davis Law Review, 2026.
Understanding and Managing Behavioral Ethics Risk. Routledge Handbook of Risk Management and The Law, 2022.
Behavioral Ethics, Risk.Power Distributions in Compliance. Measuring Compliance: Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, 2022.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, System 1&2, Rationalizations, Networks.
Criminalized Compliance. The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, 2021.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Rationalizations, Culture.
Leading a Healthier Company: Advancing a Public Health Model of Ethics and Compliance. American Business Law Journal, 2021.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Culture Networks.
Harmonizing Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Through the Paradigm of Behavioral Ethics Risk. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 2019.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs, System 1&2, Rationalizations.The Power Few of Corporate Compliance. Georgia Law Review, 2018.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, System 1&2, Rationalizations, Networks.
Caremark’s Behavioral Legacy. Temple Law Review, 2018.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, System 1&2, Prospect, Representativeness.
Nudging Corporate Compliance. American Business Law Journal, 2017.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, System 1&2, Nudges.
The Criminalization of Compliance. Notre Dame Law Review, 2017.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Rationalizations, Culture.
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Vikas Anand, et al. Business as Usual: The Acceptance and Perpetuation of Corruption in Organizations. Academy of Management, 2004.
Rationalizations, Conceptual, Seminal.
Blake E. Ashforth, et al. The Normailzation of Corruption in Organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 2003.
Rationalizations, Conceptual, Seminal.
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Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, et al. The Instrinsic Value of Choice: The Propensity to Under-Delegate in the Face of Potential Gains and Losses. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2017.
Prospect, Imperical, Behavioral Economics.Cristina Biccheri, et al. It's Not a Lie If You Believe the Norm Does Not Apply: Conditional Norm-Following and Belief Distortion. Games and Economic Behavior, 2023.
Behavioral Ethics, Social Influence, Empirical.Sheheryar Banuri. A Behavioural Economics Perspective on Compliance. Working Paper, 2021.
Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Compliance, Law & Regs, Conceptual.
Max H. Bazerman, et al. Behvaioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judment and Dishonesty. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2012.
Seminal, Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality, System 1&2.Michael Benson. Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime. Criminology, 1985.
Rationalizations, Conceptual.
Koos Boer, et al. Tax Nudges': Legal Aspects of Behaviourally Informed Strategies to Enhance Tax Compliance. Tax and Trust, Institutions, Interactions and Instruments, 2019.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs, Nudges, System 1&2.
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Sahil Chinoy, et al. Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides. Working Paper (NBER), 2024.
Behavioral Economics, Prospect, Zero-Sum.Demetris Christodoulou, et al. Counteracting dishonesty strategies: A field experiment in life insurance underwriting. Journal of Behavioral Decison Making, 2022.
Behavioral Ethics, Empirical, Nudges.C. Monica Capra, et al. Rationality and Utility: Economics and Evolutionary Psychology. Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, 2011.
Behavioral Economics, Judgement and Decision Making, Conceptual.Colin Camerer, et al. Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach. American Economic Review, 1999.
Overconfidence, Empirical.
Dolly Chugh, et al. Bounded Ethicality as a Psychological Barrier to Recognizing Conflicts of Interest. APA PsychNet, 2005.
Behavioral Ethics, Conflicts.Donald R. Cressey. The Respectable Criminal: Why Some of our Best Friends are Crooks. Criminologica, 1965.
Seminal, Conceptual Rationalizations.
Donald R. Cressey. The Differential Association Theory and Compulsive Crimes. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1954.
Seminal, Conceptual, Rationalizations.
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Simone de Colle, et al. Unethical, Neurotic, or Both? A Psychoanalytic Account of Ethical Failures Within Organizations. Business Ethics: A European Review, 2020.
Conceptual, Behavioral Compliance.
David De Cremer, et al. Toward a Better Understanding of Behavioral Ethics in the Workplace. Annual Review Organization Psychology Organizational Behavior, 2019. Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Conceptual, Review.
Keith Dear, et al. Do 'Watching Eyes' Influence Antisocial Behavior? A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2019.
Nudges, Empirical, Behavioral Ethics, Review.
Soman Dilip, et al. Seeing Sludge: Towards a Dashboard to Help Organizations Recognize Impedance to End-User Decisions and Action. Research Report Series Behaviourally Informed Organizations Partnership; Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman, 2019.
Sludge, Practical.
Minette Drumwright, et al. Behavioral Ethics and Teaching Ethical Decision Making. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovation Education, 2015.
Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality.
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Harold Eyster, et al. Why People Do What They Do: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Human Action Theories. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022.
Conceptual, Review, Judgement and Decision Making.Nicholas Epley, et al. The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016.
Conceptual, Behavioral Ethics.
Nicholas Epley, et al. Egocentric Ethics. Social Justice Research, 2004.
Behavioral Ethics, Overconfidence, Conceptual, Judgement and Decision Making.
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Erin Frey, et al. Scarlet Letters: Rehabilitation Through Transgression Transparency and Personal Narrative Control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 2022.
Behavioral Compliance, Social Influence, Empirical, Culture.Edmund Fantino. Judgment and Decision Making: Behavioral Approaches. The Behavior Analyst, 1998.
Judgement and Decision Making, Representativeness, Conceptual.
FCA. Behavioral Compliance in Organisations. Working Paper, 2016.
Behavioral Compliance, Practical, White Paper.
Yuval Feldman, et al. Ethical Blind Spots & Regulatory Traps: On Distorted Regulatory Incentives, Behavioral Ethics & Legal Deign. SSRN, 2020.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.
Yuval Feldman. Behavioral Ethics Meets Behavioral Law and Economics. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law, 2014.
Behavioral Ethics Seminal, System 1&2, Bounded Ethicality, Nudges.
Yuval Feldman, et al. Behavioral Trade-Offs: Beyond the Land of Nudges Spans the World of Law and Psychology. Book Chapter, 2014.
Behavioral Ethics, Nudges, System 1&2, Law & Regs.
Yuval Feldman, et al. Corporate Law for Good People. Northwestern University Law Review, 2021.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.
Yuval Feldman, et al. Big Data and Bounded Ethicality. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2019.
Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality, Nudges, Law & Regs.Yuval Feldman. The Complexity of Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Compliance Motivations: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from the Behavioral Analysis of Law. Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 2011.
Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance, Law & Regs.
Hein Fennema, et al. Original and Cumulative Prospect Theory: A Discussion of Empirical Differences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1997.
Prospect, Behavioral Economics, Conceptual.
Melissa Finucane, et al. The Affect of Heuristic in Judgements of Risks and Benefits. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2000.
Affect, Empirical, Judgement and Decision Making.
Keith Frankish. Dual-Process and Dual-System Theories of Reasoning. Philosophy Compass, 2010.
System 1&2, Conceptual, Review.
Shane Frederick, et al. Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review. Journal of Economic Literature, 2002.
Prospect, Behavioral Economics, Review.
David C Funder, et al. Behavior as a Function of the Situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1983.
Conceptual, Seminal.
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Fabio Galeotti, et al. Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty. The Economic Journal, 2021.
Empirical, Nudges, Behavioral Ethics.Thomas Gilovich, et al. Like Goes with Like: The Role of Representativeness in Erroneous and Pseudo-Scientific Beliefs. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, 2002.
Representativeness.
Francesca Gino, et al. Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-Control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2011.
Behavioral Ethics, Empirical, Bounded Ethicality.
Francesca Gino, et al. Contagion and Differentiation in Unethical Behavior: The Effect of One Bad Apple on the Barrel. Psychological Science, 2009.
Behavioral Ethics, Empirical.
Petter Gottschalk. Rotten Apples versus Rotten Barrels in White Collar Crime: A Qualitative Analysis of White Collar Offenders in Norway. International Journal of Criminal Justice Science, 2012.
Rationalizations, Empirical.
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Michael Hallsworth. The use of field experiments to increase tax compliance. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2014.
Empirical, Behavioral Ethics, Nudges, Revew.Chelsea Helion, et al. Making molhills out of mountains: Removing moral meaning from prior immoral actions. Journal of Behavioral Decison Making, 2022.
Behavioral Ethics, Empirical.Martie G. Haselton, et al. The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006.
Conceptual, Bounded Ethicality.
Kristian Hansen, et al. On Some Antecedents of Behavioural Economics. History of the Human Sciences, 2021.
Review, Behavioral Economics.Oliver Hauser, et al. Budging Beliefs, Nudging Behaviour. Mind & Society, 2018.
Nudges, Empirical, Behavioral Ethics.Joseph Heath. Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 2008.
Rationalizations, Conceptual, Seminal.
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Catrine Jacobsen, et al. Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature. Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018.
Behavioral Ethics, Review, Nudges, Conceptual.Eric Johnson, et al. Beyond Nudges: Tools of a Choice Architecture. Marketing Letters, 2012.
Nudges, Behavioral Economics.Kees Joedijk, et al. Aspirations, Well-being, Risk-Aversion and Loss-Aversion. Working Paper, 2012.
Prospect, Empirical, Behavioral Economics.
Owen Jones. Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law’s Leverage: Behavioral Economics Meets Behavioral Biology. Northwestern University Law Review, 2001.
Behavioral Economics, Judgement and Decision Making.
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Muel Kaptein. The Effectiveness of Ethic Programs: The Role of Scope, Composition, and Sequence. Journal of Business Ethics, 2015.
Behavioral Compliance, Empirical.Daniel Kahneman, et al. Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics. Journal of Business, 1986.
Behavioral Economics, Seminal.Daniel Kahneman, et al. Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991.
Prospect, Behavioral Economics.Nils Köbis, et al. Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti-bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior. SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022.
Behavioral Compliance, Practical, Social Influence, Empirical.Daniel Kahneman, et al. Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk. Econometrica, 1979.
Seminal, Prospect, Behavioral Economics, Conceptual.
Daniel Kahneman, et al. Choices, Values, and Frames. American Psychologist, 1984.
Seminal, Prospect.
Daniel Kahneman. Mapping Bounded Rationality. American Psychologist, 2003.
Representativeness.
Daniel Kahneman, et al. Representativeness Revisited: Attribute Substitution and Intuitive Judgment. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, 2002.
Seminal, Conceptual, Availability, Affect, Representativeness.Muel Kaptein, et al. A Model of Neutralization Techniques. Deviant Behavior, 2019. Rationalizations, Conceptual.
Scott Killingsworth. “C" is Crucible: Behavioral Ethics, Culture, and the Board's Role in C-Suite Compliance. RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance, 2013.
Behavioral Ethics, Culture, Behavioral Compliance.Jennifer Kish-Gephard, et al. Bad Apples, Bad Cases, and Bad Barrels: Meta-Analytic Evidence About Sources of Unethical Decisions at Work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010.
Conceptual, Seminal, Review, Meta-Analysis, Empirical.
Paul M. Klenowski. “Learning the Good With the Bad": Are Occupational White-Collar Offenders Taught How to Neutralize Their Crimes?. Criminal Justice Review, 2012.
Rationalizations, Empirical.
Paul Klenowski, et al. Looking Back at Other People's Money: A Qualitative Test of Cressey's Classic Hypothesis of Trust Violating Behavior. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 2013.
Rationalizations, Replication.
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Margarita Leib. People Imitate Others' Dishonesty But Do Not Intentionally Search Information About It. Journal of Behavioral Decison Making, 2022.
Social Influence, Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality.Johann Graf Lambsdorff. Preventing Corruption by Promoting Trust - Insights from Behavioral Science. Book Chapter, 2015.
Behavioral Compliance, Trust, Practical.Donald C. Langevoort. Monitoring: The Behavioral Economics of Corporate Compliance with the Law. Columbia Business Law Review, 2002.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.Donald C. Langevoort. Behavioral Ethics, Behvaioral Compliance. Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing, 2015.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.
Donald C. Langevoort. Selling Hope, Selling Risk: Some Lessons for Law from Behavioral Economics About Stockbrokers and Sophisticated Customers. California Law Review, 1996.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs, Prospect.
Donald C. Langevoort. Behavioral Theories of Judgement and Decision Making in Legal Scholarship: A Literature Review. Vanderbilt Law Review, 1998.
Review, Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.Donald C. Langevoort. Global Behavioral Compliance. Corporate Compliance on a Global Scale, 2022.
Behavioral Compliance, Law & Regs.
George Loewenstein. Preferences, Behavior, and Welfare: Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior. American Economic Review, 2000.
Seminal, Affect.
George Loewenstein, et al. The Role of Affect in Decision Making. Handbook of Affective Sciences, 2003.
Seminal, Affect.
George Loewenstein. Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1995.
Seminal, Affect.
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Nina Mazar, et al. The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance. Journal of Marketing Research, 2008.
Conceptual, Behavioral Ethics, Empirical.Shadd Maruna, et al. What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research?. Crime and Justice, 2005.
Rationalizations, Review, Seminal.
Joe McGrath. Self-Deception as a Technique of Neutralisation: An Analysis of the Subjective Account of a White-Collar Criminal. Crime, Law and Social Change, 2021.
Rationalizations, Culture, Behavioral Compliance.
Celia Moore. Psychological Processes in Organizational Corruption. Psychological Perspectives on Ethical Behavioral Decision Making, 2009.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Social Influence.
Carey Morewedge, et al. Explanations of the Endowment Effect: An Integrative Review. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2015.
Prospect, Review.
Pamela Murphy, et al. Psychological Pathways to Fraud: Understanding and Preventing Fraud in Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 2011.
Behavioral Compliance, Conceptual.
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Tae-Youn Park, et al. Incentive Effects on Ethics. Academy of Management Annals, 2022.
Behavioral Ethics, Review, Empirical.Elizabeth Paluck, et al. The salience of social referents: a field experiment on collective norms and harassment behavior in a school social network. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012. Social Influence, Networks, Empirical, Behavioral Compliance.
Nicole Piquero, et al. Examining the Role of Differential Association and Techniques of Neutralization in Explaining Corporate Crime. Deviant Behavior, 2005.
Rationalizations, Empirical.
Robert Prentice. Teaching Ethics, Heuristics, and Biases. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 2004.
Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality, Overconfidence, Representativeness.
Robert Prentice, et al. Enron: A Brief Behavioral Autopsy. American Business Law Journal, 2003.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs.
Robert Prentice, et al. Behavioral Ethics: Can it Help Lawyers (And Others) Be Their Best Selves?. Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, 2015.
Behavioral Ethics, Law & Regs, Bounded Ethicality, Rationalizations.
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Denise Rousseau, et al. Introduction to Special Topic Forum: Not so Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View of Trust. Academy of Management, 2009.
Trust, Conceptual.
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Stephen Sauer, et al. The Effects of Goals and Pay Structure on Managerial Reporting Dishonesty. Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy, 2018.
Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Economics, Imperical.Shaul Shalvi, et al. Self-Serving Justifications: Doing Wrong and Feeling Moral. Psychological Science, 2015.
Behavioral Ethics, Empirical.
Lisa L. Shu, et al. Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011.
Behavioral Ethics, Bounded Ethicality, Empirical.
Herbert Simon. A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010.
Seminal, Behavioral Economics, Judgement and Decision Making.
Paul Slovic, et al. The Affect Heuristic. European Journal of Operational Research, 2007.
Affect, Judgement and Decision Making, Empirical, Conceptual.
William Stadler, et al. Revisiting the Guilty Mind: The Neutralization of White-Collar Crime. Criminal Justice Review, 2012. Rationalizations, Empirical.
Keith Stanovich, et al. Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001.
System 1&2, Seminal
Abbey Stemler, et al. The Code of the Platform. Georgia Law Review, 2020.
Behavioral Compliance, Behavioral Ethics, Networks, Practical.
Gresham Sykes, et al. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency. American Sociological Association, 1957.
Seminal, Conceptual, Rationalizations.
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Richard Thaler. Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1980.
Behavioral Economics, Seminal, Prospect.
Richard Thaler. Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice. Marketing Science, 2008.
Seminal, Behavioral Economics, Prospect.
Richard Thaler, et al. Save More Tomorrow: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving. Political Economy, 2004.
Seminal, Behavioral Economics, Nudges.
Linda Trevino, et al. Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review. Journal of Management, 2006.
Behavioral Ethics, Conceptual, Behavorial Compliance, Review, Culture.
Linda Trevino, et al. (Un)Ethical Behavior in Organizations. Annual Review of Psychology, 2013.
Behavioral Ethics, Review, Culture, Conceptual.
Linda Trevino. Ethical Decision Making in Organizations: A Person-Situation Interactionist Model. Academy of Management Review, 1986.
Behavioral Ethics, Judgement and Decision Making, Empirical.
Amos Tversky, et al. Extensional Versus Intuitive Reasoning: The Conjunction Fallacy in Probability Judgment. Psychological Review, 1983.
Seminal, Availability.
Amos Tversky, et al. The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice. Science, 1981.
Judgement and Decision Making, Prospect, Seminal, Conceptual.
Amos Tversky, et al. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Office of Naval Research Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1973.
Seminal, System 1&2, Representativeness, Availability.
Amos Tversky, et al. Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability. Cognitive Psychology, 1973.
Seminal, Availability.
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Elizabeth Umphress, et al. When Employees Do Bad Things for Good Reasons: Examining Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors. Organization Science, 2011.
Behavioral Compliance, Conceptual, Rationalizations.