Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-9q27g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T18:13:41.887Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

12 - Power, dishonesty, and justice

from Part III - Influences on dishonesty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

By
Steven L. Blader  and
Andy J. Yap
Edited by
Jan-Willem van Prooijen  and
Paul A. M. van Lange
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Affiliation:
VU University Amsterdam
Paul A. M. van Lange
Affiliation:
VU University Amsterdam
Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Cheating, Corruption, and Concealment
The Roots of Dishonesty
 , pp. 208 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adams, J. S. (1965). Inequity in social exchange. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2, 267–299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anderson, C., & Berdahl, J. L. (2002). The experience of power: Examining the effects of power on approach and inhibition tendencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1362–1377.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Anderson, C., & Galinsky, A. D. (2006). Power, optimism, and risk-taking. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 511–536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bargh, J. A., Raymond, P., Pryor, J. B., & Strack, F. (1995). Attractiveness of the underling: An automatic power → sex association and its consequences for sexual harassment and aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 768–781.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barrett-Howard, E., & Tyler, T. R. (1986). Procedural justice as a criterion in allocation decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 296.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beaussart, M. L., Andrews, C. J., & Kaufman, J. C. (2013). Creative liars: The relationship between creativity and integrity. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 9, 129–134.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bianchi, E. C., & Brockner, J. (2012). In the eyes of the beholder? The role of dispositional trust in judgments of procedural and interactional fairness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 118, 46–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blader, S. L. (2007). What determines people’s fairness judgments? Identification and outcomes influence procedural justice evaluations under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 986–994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blader, S. L., & Bobocel, R. (2005). Wanting is believing: Understanding psychological processes in organizational justice by examining perceptions of fairness. In Gilliland, S., Steiner, D., Skarlicki, D. & Bos, K. v. d. (Eds.), Research in social issues in management (pp. 3–30). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.Google Scholar
Blader, S. L., & Chen, Y. (2011). What influences how higher status people respond to lower status others? Effects of procedural fairness, outcome favorability, and concerns about status. Organization Science, 22, 1040–1060.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blader, S. L., & Chen, Y. (2012). Differentiating the effects of status and power: A justice perspective. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 102, 994–1014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blader, S. L., & Rothman, N. B. (2014). Paving the road to preferential treatment with good intentions: Empathy, accountability and fairness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 65–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blader, S. L., & Tyler, T. R. (2003). A four-component model of procedural justice: Defining the meaning of a “fair” process. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 747–758.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Blader, S. L., Wiesenfeld, B. M., Fortin, M., & Wheeler-Smith, S. L. (2013). Fairness lies in the heart of the beholder: How the social emotions of third parties influence reactions to injustice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 121, 62–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blake, P. R., & McAuliffe, K. (2011). “I had so much it didn’t seem fair”: Eight-year-olds reject two forms of inequity. Cognition, 120, 215–224.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Boles, T. L., Croson, R. T. A., & Murnighan, J. K. (2000). Deception and retribution in repeated ultimatum bargaining. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 83, 235–259.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Brosnan, S. F. (2013). Justice- and fairness-related behaviors in nonhuman primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 10416–10423. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1301194110.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Carney, D. R., & Mason, M. F. (2010). Decision making and testosterone: When the ends justify the means. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 668–671.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chen, S., Lee-Chai, A. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (2001). Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(2), 173–187.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chugh, D., Banaji, M., & Bazerman, M. (2005). Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest. In Moore, D., Cain, D., Loewenstein, G., & Bazerman, M. (Eds.), Conflicts of interest: Challenges and solutions in business, law, medicine, and public policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Colquitt, J. A. (2001). On the dimensionality of organizational justice: A construct validation of a measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 386–400.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cropley, D. H., Kaufman, J. C., & Cropley, A. J. (2003). Malevolent creativity: A functional model of creativity in terrorism and crime. Creativity Research Journal, 20, 105–115.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Cremer, D. (2007). Advances in the psychology of justice and affect. Charlotte, NC: IAP.Google Scholar
De Cremer, D., & Van Dijk, E. (2005). When and why leaders put themselves first: Leader behaviour in resource allocations as a function of feeling entitled. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 553–563.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Waal, F. B. (1991). The chimpanzee’s sense of social regularity and its relation to the human sense of justice. American Behavioral Scientist, 34, 335–349.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DeCelles, K. A., DeRue, D. A., Margolis, J. D., & Ceranic, T. L. (2012). Does power corrupt or enable? When and why power facilitates self-interested behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 681–689.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Deutsch, Morton. (1983). Current social psychological perspectives on justice. Wiley Online Library.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dubois, D., Rucker, D. D., & Galinsky, A. D. (2015). Social class, power, and selfishness: When and why upper and lower class individuals behave unethically. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 436–449.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dunn, Barnaby D., Makarova, Dasha, Evans, David, & Clark, Luke. (2010). “I’m worth more than that”: Trait positivity predicts increased rejection of unfair financial offers. Plos One, 5(12), e15095.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fast, N. J., & Chen, S. (2009). When the boss feels inadequate: Power, incompetence, and aggression. Psychological Science, 20, 1406–1413.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fast, N. J., Halevy, N., & Galinsky, A. D. (2011). The destructive nature of power without status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 391–394.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fast, N. J., Sivanathan, N., Mayer, N. D., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). Power and overconfident decision-making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 117, 249–260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fiske, S. T. (1993). Controlling other people – The impact of power on stereotyping. American Psychologist, 48, 621–628.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Folger, R. G., & Cropanzano, R. (1998). Organizational justice and human resource management (Vol. 7). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galinsky, A. D., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Magee, J. C. (2003). From power to action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 453–466.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galinsky, A. D., Magee, J. C., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Whitson, J. A. (2008). Power reduces the press of the situation: Implications for creativity, conformity, and dissonance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1450–1466.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galinsky, A. D., Magee, J. C., Inesi, M. E., & Gruenfeld, D. H. (2006). Power and perspectives not taken. Psychological Science, 17, 1068–1074.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Georgesen, J., & Harris, M. J. (1998). Why’s my boss always holding me down? A meta-analysis of power effects on performance evaluations. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3, 184–195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gervais, S. J., Guinote, A., Allen, J., & Slabu, L. (2012). Power increases situated creativity. Social Influence, 8, 294–311.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gino, F., & Ariely, D. (2012). The dark side of creativity: Original thinkers can be more dishonest. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 445–459.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Greenberg, J. (1983). Overcoming egocentric bias in perceived fairness through self-awareness. Social Psychology Quarterly, 46, 152–156.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gruenfeld, D. H., Inesi, M. E., Magee, J. C., & Galinsky, A. D. (2008). Power and the objectification of social targets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 111–127.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Guinote, A. (2007). Power and goal pursuit. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1076–1087.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hirsh, J. B., Galinsky, A. D., & Zhong, C. B. (2011). Drunk, powerful, and in the dark: How general processes of disinhibition produce both prosocial and antisocial behavior. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 415–427.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Howard, E. S., Gardner, W. L., & Thompson, L. (2007). The role of the self-concept and the social context in determining the behavior of power holders: Self-construal in intergroup versus dyadic dispute resolution negotiations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 614–631.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Husted, B. W., & Folger, R. G. (2004). Fairness and transaction costs: The contribution of organizational justice theory to an integrative model of economic organization. Organization Science, 15, 719–729.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Inesi, M. E. (2010). Power and loss aversion. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 112, 58–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Anderson, C. (2003). Power, approach, and inhibition. Psychological Review, 110, 265–284.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kipnis, D. (1972). Does power corrupt? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 24, 33–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D. (2009). Social class, sense of control, and social explanation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 992–1004.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lammers, J., Galinsky, A. D., Gordijn, E. H., & Otten, S. (2008). Illegitimacy moderates the effects of power on approach. Psychological Science, 19, 558–564.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lammers, J., Galinsky, A. D., Gordijn, E. H., & Otten, S. (2012). Power increases social distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 282–290.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lammers, J., & Stapel, D. A. (2009). How power influences moral thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 279–289.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lammers, J., Stapel, D. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2010). Power increases hypocrisy: Moralizing in reasoning, immorality in behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 737–744.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lammers, J., Stoker, J. I., Jordan, J., Pollmann, M., & Stapel, D. A. (2011). Power increases infidelity among men and women. Psychological Science, 22, 1191–1197.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lee, F., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2001). Who’s being served? “Self-serving” attributions in social hierarchies. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 84, 254–287.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Leventhal, G. S. (1976). The distribution of rewards and resources in groups and organizations. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 9, 91–131.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leventhal, G. S. (1980). What should be done with equity theory? New York: Springer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Magee, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2013). The social distance theory of power. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 158–186.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Margolis, J. D., & Molinsky, A. (2008). Navigating the bind of necessary evils: Psychological engagement and the production of interpersonally sensitive behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 51, 847–872.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Messick, D. M., & Sentis, K. (1983). Fairness, preference, and fairness biases. Equity Theory: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives, 61, 94.Google Scholar
Molinsky, A., & Margolis, J. D. (2005). Necessary evils and interpersonal sensitivity in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 30, 245–268.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Overbeck, J. R., & Park, B. (2001). When power does not corrupt: Superior individuation processes among powerful perceivers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 549–565.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Overbeck, J. R., & Park, B. (2006). Powerful perceivers, powerless objects: Flexibility of powerholders’ social attention. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 227–243.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Cote, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, 4086–4091.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pitesa, M., & Thau, S. (2013a). Compliant sinners, obstinate saints: How power and self-focus determine the effectiveness of (un)ethical social influences. Academy of Management Journal, 56, 636–658.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pitesa, M., & Thau, S. (2013b). Masters of the universe: How power and accountability influence self-serving decisions under moral hazard. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 550–558.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rothman, N. B., & Magee, J. C. (2016). Affective expressions and inferences about members’ relational well-being: The effects of socially engaging and disengaging emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 150–166.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rus, D., van Knippenberg, D., & Wisse, B. (2012). Leader power and self-serving behavior: The moderating role of accountability. The Leadership Quarterly, 23, 13–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rutte, C. G., & Messick, D. M. (1995). An integrated model of perceived unfairness in organizations. Social Justice Research, 8, 239–261.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sawaoka, T., Hughes, B. L., & Ambady, N. (2015). Power heightens sensitivity to unfairness against the self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1023–1035.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schroeder, D. A., Steel, J. E., Woodell, A. J., & Bembenek, A. F. (2003). Justice within social dilemmas. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 374–387.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Skarlicki, D. P., Ellard, J. H., & Kelln, B. R. C. (1998). Third-party perceptions of a layoff: Procedural, derogation, and retributive aspects of justice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 119.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Skarlicki, D. P., & Kulik, C. T. (2004). Third-party reactions to employee (mis) treatment: A justice perspective. Research in Organizational Behavior, 26, 183–229.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2006). You focus on the forest when you’re in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 578–596.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Trevino, L. K. (1992). The social effects of punishment in organizations: A justice perspective. Academy of Management Review, 17, 647–676.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tyler, T. R., & Blader, S. L. (2000). Cooperation in groups: Procedural justice, social identity and behavioral engagement. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.Google Scholar
Tyler, T. R., & Blader, S. L. (2003). The group engagement model: Procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 349–361.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tyler, T. R., Boeckmann, R. J., Smith, H. J., & Huo, Y. J. (1997). Social justice in a diverse society. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Google Scholar
Van den Bos, K., & Lind, E. A. (2002). Uncertainty management by means of fairness judgments. In Zanna, M. P. (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 34, pp. 1–60). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Van Dijk, E., & De Cremer, D. (2006). Self-benefiting in the allocation of scarce resources: Leader-follower effects and the moderating role of social value orientations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1352–1361.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
van Kleef, G. A., Oveis, C., van der Lowe, I., LuoKogan, A., Goetz, J., & Keltner, D. (2008). Power, distress, and compassion: Turning a blind eye to the suffering of others. Psychological Science, 19, 1315–1322.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiltermuth, S. S., & Flynn, F. J. (2012). Power, moral clarity, and punishment in the workplace. Academy of Management Journal, 56, 1002–1023.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yap, A. J., Wazlawek, A. S., Lucas, B. J., Cuddy, A. C., & Carney, D. R. (2013). The ergonomics of dishonesty: The effect of incidental posture on stealing, cheating, and traffic violations. Psychological Science, 24, 2281–2289.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×