When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect
Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2222020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daylian M Cain, G Loewenstein (0000-0003-2790-0474), Dward A Moore (0000-0002-6537-9598), Don A Moore |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 836-857 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Consumer Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-5301 • E-ISSN: 1537-5277 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/656252 |
| OpenAlex | W2178200493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 29 |
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-biased advice. Study 3 shows that disclosure backfires when advice recipients who receive disclosure fail to sufficiently discount and thus fail to mitigate the adverse effects of disclosure on advisor bias. Study 4 identifies one remedy for inadequate discounting of biased advice: explicitly and simultaneously contrasting biased advice with unbiased advice
Art history · George (robot) · Library science · Media studies · Sociology · Computer Science · Corporate Identity and Reputation · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Ethics in Business and Education · History
Do Conflict of Interest Disclosures Facilitate Public Trust
The burden of disclosure
Anxiety, advice, and the ability to discern
Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity
A Meta-Analytic Review of Moral Licensing
The i-frame and the s-frame
Ethically adrift
Moral Licensing
Breastfeeding and the origins of health
The Effect of Conflict of Interest Disclosures on Misselling
Making Behavioral Ethics Research More Useful for Ethics Management Practice
Preventing Disclosure-Induced Moral Licensing
Policy solutions to conflicts of interest
Behavioral Ethics Meets Legal Ethics
Systematic Review of Conflict of Interest Studies in Public Administration
The paradox of disclosure
Communicating through Defaults
Understanding the (perverse) effects of disclosing conflicts of interest
Deception and reputation – An experimental test of reporting systems
Effects of wrongdoer status on moral licensing
Being biased against friends to appear unbiased
What you don’t know won’t hurt me
Strategic Information Transmission
The Dishonesty of Honest People
Fairness in Simple Bargaining Experiments
Relying on the Information of Interested Parties
Judgment under Uncertainty
The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms
The Theory of Economic Regulation
Preference reversals between joint and separate evaluations of options
Preference reversals between joint and separate evaluations of options
Moral credentials and the expression of prejudice
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence
How Warnings about False Claims Become Recommendations
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |