Competition negatively impacts moral behavior – a new study by ILR School Assistant Professor Brian Lucas, ILR Ph.D. student Zachariah Berry and dozens of other co-authors affirms that.

“Competition and Moral Behavior: A Meta-analysis of Forty-five Crowd-sourced Experimental Designs” was published May 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lucas and Berry are among 45 teams that collaborated to investigate the research question: Does competition influence moral behavior? It does, they learned. To get there, teams independently designed an experiment to test the question.

Then all 45 experiments were executed and analyzed by the project’s lead researcher, Christoph Huber at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. 

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Mary Catt is director of communications for the ILR School.