Competition and cheating: Investigating the role of moral awareness, moral identity, and moral elevation

• Main Authors: VADERA, Abhijeet K., PATHKI, Chandra Shekhar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: cheating; competition; moral awareness; moral elevation; moral identity; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6953; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7952/viewcontent/J_Organ_Behavior___2021___Vadera___Competition_and_cheating_Investigating_the_role_of_moral_awareness_moral_identity_and.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Competition can lead individuals to cheat; yet our knowledge of why competition affects cheating and how to mitigate these effects is limited. To address this limitation, we first contrast two theories: arousal theories of competition (via desire to win) and social cognitive theory (via impaired mor...