Annotated Bibliography

1. Ariely, D. (2008). The Context of Our Character. In Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions (pp. 217-230). New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins.
   
   In chapter 12 of Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, he discusses how our moral compass can be skewed when we deal with items rather than cash. I am going to replicate an experiment that Ariely uses in his book. His experiment was to get a 6 pack of coke and some cash and leave them both in a college dorm room and see which goes missing. His results were that people were more likely to steal the soda rather than the cash. I am going to differentiate my experiment to see if people are more likely to steal during the week vs. the weekends.
   
2. A. David Redish, Steve Jensen and Adam Johnson (2008). A unified framework for addiction: Vulnerabilities in the decision process. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, pp 415-437 doi:10.1017/S0140525X0800472X
   
   In the journal article, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, David Redish writes about the neuroscience behind human decision making. He discusses 10 key components as to why people may perform maladaptive behaviors. He describes how the brain and how we are human beings and our conscience is there to help up make the write decisions, even though we have that we still make faulty decisions.
   
3. Gino, F., & Galinsky, A. (2012). Vicarious dishonesty: When psychological closeness creates distance from one’s moral compass. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119(1), 15-26. Retrieved April 17, 2015, from Science DIrect.
   In Gino and Galinsky's article they discuss the psychology behind a person mind and how their moral compass is skewed. In the journal they mostly discuss the psychological connectedness someone feels when they are being dishonest. They also bring up the point of how someones moral compass gets altered due to selfishness and selfishness could be a potential reasoning for dishonesty.
   
4. Bloomquist, J. (2010). Lying, cheating, and stealing: A study of categorical misdeeds. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(6), 1595-1605. Retrieved April 17, 2015, from Science DIrect.
   
   Bloomquist's study is about how lying cheating and stealing are all connected and people who are willing to do one are more likely to do the other two as well. So if one is willing to lie they are most likely willing to cheat and steal.  This can be incorporated into my paper through the experiment I am going to perform in my dorm with the soda and cash.
   
5. Effects of deindividuation variables on stealing among Halloween trick-or-treaters.Diener, Edward; Fraser, Scott C.; Beaman, Arthur L.; Kelem, Roger T.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 33(2), Feb 1976, 178-183.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.33.2.17
   
   In this study the researchers are looking at the variables involved with children stealing Halloween candy. This relates back to my experiment so hopefully there will be a correlation in my expeiment with students stealing the soda just like he correlation of children who steal the candy.
   
6. Niven, K., & Healy, C. (2015). Susceptibility to the ‘Dark Side’of Goal-Setting: Does Moral Justification Influence the Effect of Goals on Unethical Behavior?. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-13.
   
   In this article Niven and Healy discuss how  a persons goal can compromise their ethical behavior. So if their goal is to pay through college they may steal to compensate for that even though they understand that it is morally wrong. Their need and goals subside their ethics and people are more willing to be dishonest. This relates to my essay as I will be discussing peoples morals and how they still cheat and steal.