Financial deprivation selectively shifts moral standards and compromises moral decisions
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0749-5978/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.09.001 q This research was supported by grants from the University of Toronto Joseph L. Rotman School of Management Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We thank Maria Catanzaro and Wardah Malik for running experiments. This manuscript is accompanied by supplemental materials: the scales used in the pilot survey (Appendix A), the scales used in Experiment 2’s pretest (Appendix B), and the scenarios used in Experiments 4 and 5 (Appendix C). ⇑ Corresponding authors. Fax: +1 603 646 1308 (E. Sharma), fax: +1 416 978 5433 (N. Mazar). E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. Sharma), nina.mazar@ rotman.utoronto.ca (N. Mazar), [email protected] (A.L. Alter), [email protected] (D. Ariely). Eesha Sharma a,⇑, Nina Mazar b,⇑, Adam L. Alter , Dan Ariely d
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