Using machine learning to generate novel hypotheses: increasing optimism about COVID-19 makes people less willing to justify unethical behaviors

• Main Authors: Sheetal, Abhishek, Feng, Zhiyu, Savani, Krishna
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Business::Management; COVID-19; Machine Learning
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161156
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

How can we nudge people to not engage in unethical behaviors, such as hoarding and violating social-distancing guidelines, during the COVID-19 pandemic? Because past research on antecedents of unethical behavior has not provided a clear answer, we turned to machine learning to generate novel hypothe...