Does Ethics Training Neutralize the Incentives of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment

Teaching economics has been shown to encourage students to defect in a prisoner's dilemma game. However, can ethics training reverse that effect and promote cooperation? We conducted an experiment to answer this question. We found that students who had the ethics module had higher rates of coop...

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Authors: James, Harvey S. (Author) ; Cohen, Jeffrey P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-61
Further subjects:B experimental game theory
B impact of ethics training
B prisoner's dilemma game
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