
Management Papers
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
2-2008
Publication Source
Negotiation and Conflict Management Research
Volume
1
Issue
1
Start Page
3
Last Page
29
DOI
10.1111/j.1750-4716.2007.00002.x
Abstract
In this article, we describe how envy motivates deception. We find that individuals who envy a counterpart are more likely to deceive them than are individuals who do not envy their counterpart. Across both a scenario and a laboratory study, we explore the influence of envy in a negotiation setting. Negotiations represent a domain in which social comparisons are prevalent and deception poses a particularly important concern. In our studies, we induce envy by providing participants with upward social comparison information. We find that upward social comparisons predictably trigger envy, and that envy promotes deception by increasing psychological benefits and decreasing psychological costs of engaging in deceptive behavior. We discuss implications of our results with respect to negotiations and the role of emotions in ethical decision making.
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [Moran, S. & Schweitzer, M.E. (2008). When Better is Worse: Envy and the Use of Deception in Negotiations. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 1, no. 1: pp. 3-29], which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-4716.2007.00002.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Keywords
negotiations, emotion, ethics, deception, envy, social comparison
Recommended Citation
Moran, S., & Schweitzer, M. E. (2008). When Better Is Worse: Envy and the Use of Deception. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 1 (1), 3-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-4716.2007.00002.x
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Date Posted: 25 October 2018
This document has been peer reviewed.