The Cultural Dynamics of Rewarding Honesty and Punishing Deception

• Main Authors: WANG, Cynthia S., LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: reward; punishment; honesty; deception; culture; social mobility; Multicultural Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1024; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2280/viewcontent/CulturalDynamicsRewardHonesty_2010.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent research suggests that individuals reward honesty more than they punish deception. Five experiments showed that different patterns of rewards and punishments emerge for North American and East Asian cultures. Experiment 1 demonstrated that Americans rewarded more than they punished, whereas E...