Willful Blindness and Dishonesty

Willful Blindness: The Inefficient Reward Structure in Academic Research

The only reward structure that provides authors an incentive to choose the most efficient sized research teams is strict proration of author credit. Nevertheless, survey evidence indicates that the reward structure used in Economics for at least the last thirty years only incompletely prorates authorship credit, which should lead to inefficiently high levels of coauthorship. A possible reason f...

Willful Child Abuse and State Reporting Statutes

Is Dishonesty Contagious

When an individual believes that peers are predominantly untruthful in a given situation, is he/she more likely to be untruthful in that situation? We study this question in deception experiments patterned after Gneezy (2005) and conducted in Arizona, California, and India. We find evidence that dishonesty is indeed contagious.

Dishonesty in scientific research.

Fraudulent business practices, such as those leading to the Enron scandal and the conviction of Bernard Madoff, evoke a strong sense of public outrage. But fraudulent or dishonest actions are not exclusive to the realm of big corporations or to evil individuals without consciences. Dishonest actions are all too prevalent in everyone's daily lives, because people are constantly encountering situ...

Environment and Blindness Situation in Iran

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of adults with acquired blindness while performing the daily activities of normal life and to investigated the role of environmental factors in this process. Methods: A qualitative phenomenological method has been designed for this study. A sample of 22 adults with acquired blindness who were blind for more than 5 years of ...