• Moral hypocrisy was exposed both between-subjects and within-subjects. • We investigated whether hypocrites are self-deceptive — do they fool themselves? • People let a fair coin decide monetary allocations only if they could fudge the results. • Hypocrites placed a higher priority on Conformity values. • The results suggest the primacy of impression management concerns over self-deception. a...

Perceived corporate hypocrisy, a perception of corporations claiming to have virtuous character that they do not really possess, is growing concern for US businesses. The purpose this study was investigate the impact retail employees’ perceived hypocrisy (PCH) related corporations’ moral responsibility efforts on their work-related behaviors, namely turnover intentions, mediated by lack trust a...

Academic policies that require medical excuses are based on mistrust of students and conflict with institutional honor codes. Such policies undermine the philosophical and educational foundations of higher education; namely, to model and nurture honesty, integrity, and citizenship in emerging adults. Instead, they encourage hypocrisy and exaggeration by requiring students to prove they are sick...

Purpose This study contributes to the literature on hypocrisy in corporate social responsibility by investigating how organizations adapt their nonfinancial disclosure after a social, environmental or governance scandal. Design/methodology/approach The present research employs content analysis of disclosures 11 during 3-year timespan investigate they responded major scandals terms and sustainab...

Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale demonstrates the characterization of a riotous apprentice, narrative depiction conflict between that apprentice and his master, master’s issuing questionable “papir” “acquitance” (4404 & 4411) to suggest provocatively linked definitions class depictions order transgression specific guild-oriented mercantile culture fourteenth-century London. Considered within context G...