ABSTRACT Between 1995 and 2021, the United States’ Federal Government imposed $162.5 billion in penalties upon government contractors who had engaged improper behavior as part of procurement process. Despite enormity contractor misbehavior, characteristics associated with misconduct are relatively underexplored academic literature. In this study, we examine whether to what extent firm predict f...

Here we analyze results from three recent papers (2009, 2011, 2012) by Dr. Jens Förster from the Psychology Department of the University of Amsterdam. These papers report 40 experiments involving a total of 2284 participants (2242 of which were undergraduates). We apply an F test based on descriptive statistics to test for linearity of means across three levels of the experimental design. Resul...