Dishonesty is ubiquitous and imposes substantial financial and social burdens on society.
Intuitively, dishonesty results from a failure of willpower to control selfish behavior. However, …

Every day, we are faced with the conflict between the temptation to cheat for financial gains
and maintaining a positive image of ourselves as being a “good person.” While it has been …

Measurement of the determinants of socially undesirable behaviors, such as dishonesty,
are complicated and obscured by social desirability biases. To circumvent these biases, we …

Learning to predict action outcomes in morally conflicting situations is essential for social
decision-making but poorly understood. Here we tested which forms of Reinforcement …

The processing of reinforcers and punishers is crucial to adapt to an ever changing environment
and its dysregulation is prevalent in mental health and substance use disorders. While …

In daily life we regularly must decide whether to act dishonestly for personal gain or to be
honest and maintain a positive image of ourselves. While evidence suggests that acute stress …

A preference for fairness may originate from prosocial or strategic motivations: we may wish
to improve others’ well-being or avoid the repercussions of selfish behavior. Here, we used …

Numerous studies demonstrate that moment-to-moment neural variability is behaviorally
relevant and beneficial for tasks and behaviors requiring cognitive flexibility. However, it …

There is a long-standing debate regarding the cognitive nature of (dis)honesty: Is honesty
an automatic response or does it require willpower in the form of cognitive control in order to …

Every day, we are faced with the conflict between the temptation to cheat for financial gains
and maintaining a positive image of ourselves as being a ‘good person’. While it has been …