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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"dishonest"”.
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Synchronous Byzantine Broadcast algorithms for a dishonest majority
… the bound is tight, specically when f >/= n/2 (a dishonest majority). This thesis explores ways to improve the eciency of Byzantine Broadcast algorithms for a dishonest majority. In particular, we present an expected 10 round protocol for f = n/2, which works by constructing a hierarchy of …
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Does Self-Complexity Predict Dishonest Behavior Via Cognitive Dissonance?
… dissonance, thus increasing the likelihood of dishonest behavior. Participants completed a selfcomplexity measure, and then they completed a dissonance-rousing task where they must choose between providing honest answers or maximizing their personal gain. Regression analysis showed that high …
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Undestanding dishonest behavior: what motivates it, how to prevent it, and how people respond to it
… difference is driven by strategic responses to dishonest reports in expectation of future reciprocity.
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Tax-Deductible Donations and Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Self-Justification On Dishonest Behavior
<p>The literature on tax evasion suggests that ethical considerations are one of the reasons why people evade taxes much less than suggested by standard economic models (Alm et al, (1995), Frey (1997)). According to moral disengagement theory (Bandura (1990, 1999, 2002)), individuals refrain from …
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Securing the ADS-B Protocol for Attack-resilient Multiple UAV Collision Avoidance
… to a variety of threats from compromised and dishonest UAVs. This could result in substantial losses or damage to properties. This research proposes a new distance-bounding scheme for verifying the distance and flight trajectory in the ADS-B packets from surrounding UAVs. The proposed scheme …
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Consumer Protection in Digital Content Products in Tanzania and its implication to the Seller against dishonest Consumer: A Case Study of Music CD and DVD business in Tanzania
… examine the implication to the seller against dishonest consumer who may copy digital product and seek to return it. The study was based on case study approach where by various report, literatures and interview on consumer protection in digital content product in Tanzania were assessed and …
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Ostracism and Antisocial Behavior: The Role of Perceived Justice, Entitlement, and Anger
… antisocial behavioral intentions (i.e., dishonest intentions). It was hypothesized that an unfair ostracism experience (compared to a fair ostracism or control experience) would lead to more antisocial behavior, specifically dishonest behavioral intentions, which would be mediated by …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… hundreds of thousands of jobs each year due to dishonest behavior (Mazar and Ariely, 2006; Griffin et al., 2022). Thus, understanding dishonest behavior and finding mechanism to effectively reduce dishonest behavior are of great relevance to policy makers and the economy in general. This …
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Essays on delegation and social norms
… some results on production, delegation and dishonest behaviour. The first study compares how group size interacts with both constrained and un-constrained resource environments, finding that resource limitations diminish production over time and that all the groups learn with experience. The …
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Rationalizing the Decision to Cheat: An Empirical Analysis to Determine Whether Social Rational Orientation can Predict Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is a wide-spread issue that plagues educational institutions, including those in higher education. The purpose of higher education is to increase knowledge and foster learning within students who are willing to put forth the effort necessary to earn a degree. However, students …
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Exploring The Relationship Between Academic Dishonesty And Moral Development In Law School Students
… existed between moral development and dishonest academic behaviors in law students. The quantitative portion of the study utilized a survey adapted from James Rest's Defining Issues Test and Donald McCabe's Academic Integrity Survey. Law students were solicited by email from two public …
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A Critical Analysis of Mary Warnock's Argument for the Exclusion of Religious Arguments from Public Moral Discourse
… Theodore J. Cabal Mary Warnock, in her 2010 book Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics, argues for the exclusion of religious arguments from public moral discourse, contending that religious arguments resist moral change, illegitimately impose religious authority upon the public, …
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Essays in behavioral industrial organization, corruption, and marketing
… where a rich and a poor villagers live. A dishonest bureaucrat can be bribed not to choose the surplus maximizing project and instead to choose a project that favors the rich villager. Once the bureaucrat has chosen a project, the villagers can send a costly praising or complaining message …
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Limited liability: a pathway for corporate recklessness?
… principle because it provides a mechanism for dishonest directors to escape liability for their fraudulent conduct. It also argues that the existing judicial evasion and concealment principles and the statutory fraudulent and wrongful trading provisions under the Insolvency Act 1986 are too …
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How Power and Powerlessness Corrupt
… imposed by our environment lead to increases in dishonest behavior. Chapters 2 to 4 present three experiments, which found that powerful individuals were more likely to steal money, cheat on a test, and commit traffic violations in a driving simulation. Results suggested that participants' …
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"A new teaching-with authority!": Evangelical traditioning and the challenges to the doctrine of inerrancy
… for theological growth and is intellectually dishonest when confronted with the challenges presented by modern biblical scholarship.
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Cherokee Indian Removal: The Treaty of New Echota and General Winfield Scott.
… United States. This treaty was secured by dishonest means and, despite the efforts of Chief John Ross to prevent the removal of the Cherokees from their homeland to west of the Mississippi River, the terms of the treaty were executed. In May of 1838, under the command of General Winfield …
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Freedom Through the Cultivation of Humanness: Philosophy, Psychology and the Authentic Self
… one’s freedom and inauthenticity arises out of a dishonest and passive relationship to one’s freedom. Behaviorists and Humanistic psychologists disagree about the nature of the self and the degree of human freedom. Behaviorists see the self as heavily determined and as a collection of reactions to …
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Quantifying the Role of Prosody in the Perception of Deception
… terminal rising inflection is perceived as more dishonest than a falling terminal inflection. Canadian English listeners heard pairs of sentence stimuli which differed only in terms of a final falling, neutral, or rising intonation contour and judged which sentence in each pair sounded more …
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Inconspicuous but Indispensable: Charles Anderson Dana as Assistant Secretary of War
… spectrum of responsibilities from investigating dishonest contractors and federal officials attempting to defraud the government to authorizing the arbitrary arrests of civilians. He simultaneously performed lesser-known activities such as arranging soldiers' furloughs for the 1864 presidential …
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