Mulder, Laetitia B.; Aquino, Karl - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 121 (2013) 2, pp. 219-230
People lie on a regular basis. However, lying can pose a threat to the self-view of being an honest and moral person … lying is reconfirming oneself to be an honest and moral person, for example, by showing subsequent moral behavior. We … hypothesize that people engage in this reconfirmation depending on whether their moral identity is central to their self …