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Gratitude and Self-Benefiting Obedience: Gratitude Eliciting Dishonest Behavior Out of Obedience

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Experiments reveal that gratitude enhances dishonesty while obeying social influences, suggesting reevaluation of moral implications.

Grateful individuals were more likely to report inflated scores for personal gain, indicating a link between gratitude and dishonest behavior.
In two studies, participants feeling gratitude were more obedient to misleading commands, emphasizing the role of social influence in decision-making.
The tendency to cheat was driven by a desire to maintain social harmony and was not observed with chance events, marking a unique effect of gratitude.
These findings raise questions about the relationship between gratitude and moral decision-making, suggesting potential vulnerabilities.

Tong et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Experiments reveal that gratitude enhances dishonesty while obeying social influences, suggesting reevaluation of moral implications.

Grateful individuals were more likely to report inflated scores for personal gain, indicating a link between gratitude and dishonest behavior.
In two studies, participants feeling gratitude were more obedient to misleading commands, emphasizing the role of social influence in decision-making.
The tendency to cheat was driven by a desire to maintain social harmony and was not observed with chance events, marking a unique effect of gratitude.
These findings raise questions about the relationship between gratitude and moral decision-making, suggesting potential vulnerabilities.

Tong et al. (2025) studied this question.

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