Why Do People Forget Dishonest Actions?

By Francesca Gino, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Maryam Kouchaki, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

Psychological research on morality shows that we hold an overly optimistic view of our capacity to adhere to ethical standards. We believe that we are intrinsically more moral than others, that we will behave more ethically than others in the future and that transgressions committed by others are morally worse than our own. But that's not necessarily the case......Read more