The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior.
In four studies, we evaluated how corporate misconduct relates to language patterns, perceptions of immorality, and unethical behavior. First, we analyzed nearly 190 codes of conduct from S&P 500 manufacturing companies and observed that corporations with ethics infractions had more linguistically o...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Language & Social Psychology Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 277 - 297 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2021
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