Just Thinking About Money Can Make You Unethical
Can the very idea of money make you unethical? New research using business students as guinea pigs suggests it can. The authors conducted four studies that were all variations on a theme: Undergraduate students in an introductory business course were assigned to two groups; one was “primed” to think about money, one wasn’t. In all four studies, the priming involved descrambling a list of words that refers to money (“She spends money liberally”). What follows was designed to determine the impact of thinking about money. In one study, participants were given word fragments and were asked to fill in the blanks. MSource: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/just-thinking-about-money-can-make-you-unethical
