Daylian M Cain

Biographic Data

ID206188
NAMEDaylian M Cain
GIVEN NAMESDaylian M
FAMILY NAMECain
SIGNATURECAIN D M
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Do Conflict of Interest Disclosures Facilitate Public Trust

    Open AccessDaylian M Cain, Mohin BankerARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2020

    Lab experiments disagree on the efficacy of disclosure as a remedy to conflicts of interest (COIs). Some experiments suggest that disclosure has perverse effects, although others suggest these are mitigated by real-world factors (eg, feedback, sanctions, norms). This article argues that experiments reporting positive effects of disclosure often lack external validity: disclosure works best in lab experiments that make it unrealistically clear tha…

  • Tainted Altruism: When Doing Some Good Is Evaluated as Worse Than Doing No Good at All

    Open AccessGeorge E Newman, Daylian M CainARTICLEPsychological Science2014

    In four experiments, we found that the presence of self-interest in the charitable domain was seen as tainting: People evaluated efforts that realized both charitable and personal benefits as worse than analogous behaviors that produced no charitable benefit. This tainted-altruism effect was observed in a variety of contexts and extended to both moral evaluations of other agents and participants’ own behavioral intentions (e.g., reported willingn…

  • The burden of disclosure: Increased compliance with distrusted advice

    Sunita Sah, G Loewenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2012Cited by: 8References: 9

    Professionals often face conflicts of interest that give them an incentive to provide biased advice, and disclosure (informing advisees about the conflict) is frequently proposed as a solution to the problem. We present 6 experiments that reveal a previously unrecognized perverse effect of disclosure: Although disclosure can decrease advisees' trust in the advice, it can also increase pressure to comply with that advice if advisees feel obliged t…

  • When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

    Daylian M Cain, G Loewenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2011Cited by: 5References: 26

    Disclosure is often proposed as a remedy for conflicts of interest, but it can backfire, hurting those whom it is intended to protect. Building on our prior research, we introduce a conceptual model of disclosure’s effects on advisors and advice recipients that helps to explain when and why it backfires. Studies 1 and 2 examine psychological mechanisms (strategic exaggeration, moral licensing) by which disclosure can lead advisors to give more-bi…

  • Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy

    Dward A Moore, Don A Moore et al.BOOKConflicts of Interest2010

  • What you don’t know won’t hurt me: Costly (but quiet) exit in dictator games

    Open AccessJason Dana, Daylian M Cain et al.ARTICLEOrganizational Behavior and Human…2006