License to Spill: The Influence of Moral Licensing Survey Primes on Deviant Behavior Reporting
License to Spill: The Influence of Moral Licensing Survey Primes on Deviant Behavior Reporting
Kate Whitman Zahra Murad Joe Cox Aldert Vrij a University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, UKb Azerbaijan State University of Economics, Baku, AzerbaijanKate Whitman, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth (UK). A behavioural economist with a background in the creative industries, she explores the psychological mechanisms and cultural factors involved in decision-making and designs interventions to encourage positive behavioural outcomes. Through experimental research, she seeks to deepen understanding of human behaviour in ways that improve business practices and inform public policy. Her work spans behavioural and experimental economics, behavioural interventions, the creative, games and sports industries, deviant behaviour, corporate social responsibility, environmental psychology, gender biases, moral reasoning, and social decision-making. She is currently applying these interests to develop interventions that promote more sustainable behaviours and address social issues such as social disconnectedness and gender pay gaps.Zahra Murad, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Her research examines cognitive biases, gender inequality in leadership, and the role of social norms in shaping economic decision-making, using laboratory and field experiments to design interventions that improve organisational practices and public policy outcomes. She collaborates internationally on projects related to behavioural interventions, discrimination, and decision-making.Joe Cox, Ph.D., is Professor of Fintech and Digital Economy and Associate Head (Research and Innovation) in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth (UK). His research examines how the digital economy influences individual and organisational behaviours, decisions, and interactions. Joe conducts applied empirical research drawing on microeconomics, applied econometrics, industrial organisation, and behavioural and experimental economics. His work focuses particularly on crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and the creative and cultural industries, including the video game, music, and film sectors.Aldert Vrij, Ph.D., is Professor of Applied Social Psychology, University of Portsmouth (UK). His main research interest is nonverbal and verbal deception and lie detection, resulting in more than 600 publications, which have been widely cited (> 36,000 citations and H-index 95). An overview article of 100 years deception research published in 2022 (doi: 10.1002/acp.3971) showed that Vrij has the most publications and the most citations in the field. He received more than 80 grants from British Research Councils, Trusts and Foundations, Insurers, Federal Bureau of Investigation, High value detainee Interrogation Group, and American, British, Dutch, and Singapore Governments, totalling > US$12,000,000. He works closely with practitioners (police, security services and intelligence) in terms of designing and conducting research and disseminating its findings. He researches and provides training to practitioners in Cognitive Credibility Assessment (CCA), the verbal veracity assessment tool he and his colleagues developed. It can be used to assess veracity in situations where there is no independence evidence available. In 2016 he received the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iiiRG) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his significant contribution to investigative interviewing.