Psychology Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-31-2017
Journal
Sci Data
Volume
4
First Page
160120
Last Page
160120
URL with Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.120
Abstract
Four replications of Piff and colleagues' study examined the moderating effects of greed attitudes on the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and unethical behaviour (Study 7). In the original study, the researchers found that both greed and SES predicted increased propensity to engage in unethical behavior. Furthermore, this association was moderated such that the effects of SES on unethical behaviour were no longer present in the greed prime condition versus the neutral condition. In replication 1 of the original study main effects of greed attitudes and SES were found, but no interaction was found. Main effects for greed emerged in replications 3 and 4. However no main effects for SES or interactions emerged for replications 2-4. A meta-analysis was conducted with all replications and the original study, and found no moderating effect of greed on the relationship between SES and unethical behavior.
Notes
PMID: 28140396 PMCID: PMC5283063