Applied Ethics and Morality Research Group

In 2021, a research group unique in its interdisciplinary approach to study dis/honesty in organizations was established at the Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Business and Economics. The group includes scholars working in the fields of business ethics, moral psychology, and experimental economics (see our publications). The group uses an in-house laboratory and has a large database of participants.

Our Team

Principal Investigators	doc. Ing. Mgr. et Mgr. Štěpán Bahník, Ph.D. [mail] Head of the research group; Associate Professor, Department of Management; specializes in judgment and decision-making, social and moral psychology, programming, methodology, and statistical analysis
	doc. Ing. Petr Houdek, Ph.D. [mail] Associate Professor, Department of Management; specializes in behavioral economics
	doc. Ing. Marek Hudík, Ph.D. [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics; focuses on game theory, microeconomics, and experimental economics
Researchers	Ing. Tomáš Miklánek, M.A., Ph.D. [mail] Research Associate at the Department of Managerial Economics; specializes in research of pro-social behavior and tax morale using experimental methods
Researchers	doc. PhDr. Lubomír Cingl, Ph.D. [mail] Associate Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics; focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, with an interest also in neuroeconomics, cognitive science of religion, and public economics
Doctoral Student	Ing. Mgr. Marek Vranka [mail] PhD student in Business Economics and Management; focuses on behavioral interventions, moral and social psychology and participates in replication studies in psychology
Alumni	Mgr. Nikola Frollová, Ph.D. Puneet Arora, Ph.D. — Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Selected Publications

2023

Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2023). How does probabilistic harm affect dishonesty? An experiment. Finance Research Letters, 58, 104373.
Bajzíková, S. & Cingl, L. (2023). Measuring stereotypes in effort tasks: A multiple-price list approach. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 105, 102032
Cingl, L., Lichard, T., & Miklánek, T. (2023). Tax designation effects on compliance: An online experiment with taxpayers. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 214, 615-633.
Efendić, E., Van de Calseyde, P. P., Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. A. (2023). Taking algorithmic (vs. human) advice reveals different goals to others. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-10.
Fišar, M., Cingl, L., Reggiani, T., Kundtová-Klocová, E., Kundt, R., Krátký, J., Kostolanská, K., Bencúrová, K., Kudličková Pešková, M., Marečková, K. (2023). Ovulatory Shift, Hormonal Changes, and No Effects on Incentivized Decision‐Making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 98, 102656.
Houdek, P. (2023). The deep roots of cross-cultural differences in organizational behavior: Do human resource management education has to respect them? The International Journal of Management Education, 21, 100876.
Urban, J., Bahník, Š., & Braun Kohlová, M. (2023). Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers. Environment and Behavior, 55, 74-98.
2022
Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2022). No evidence of moral licensing in a laboratory bribe-taking task. Scientific Reports, 12, 13860.
Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. A. (2022). Experimental test of the effects of punishment probability and size on the decision to take a bribe. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 97, 101813.
Chadimová, K., Cahlíková, J., & Cingl, L. (2022). Foretelling What Makes People Pay: Predicting the Results of Field Experiments on TV Fee Enforcement. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 100, 101902.
Katuščák, P., & Miklánek, T. (2022). What drives conditional cooperation in public good games? Experimental Economics, 1-33. doi: 10.1007/s10683-022-09756-9
Tkáčik, M., & Houdek, P. (2022). Born on the first of April: The changes in the birth grant and its effect on the duration of the pregnancy. Applied Economics Letters. doi: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2130863
2021
Frollová, N., Vranka, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). A qualitative study of perception of a dishonesty experiment. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(3), 274–290.
Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Hudík, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Selection Effects on Dishonest Behavior. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(2), 238–266.
Prochazka, J., Fedoseeva, Y., & Houdek, P. (2021). A field experiment on dishonesty: A registered replication of Azar et al. (2013). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, 101617.
Suseno, Y., Chang, C., Hudík, M., Fang, E., & Liu, N. (2021). Why do employees engage in counterproductive work behaviours? Cultural values and white-collar employees in China. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 397–421.
Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M., & Bahník, Š. (2021). No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain. Environment and Behavior, 53, 1070–1094.
Vranka, M. A., Hudík, M., Frollová, N., Bahník, Š., Sýkorová, M., & Houdek, P. (2021). Honesty of Online Workers: A Field Experiment shows no Evidence of Self-Selection of Cheaters to a Cheating-enabling Work Environment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 94, 101730.
2020 and older
Cahlíková, J., Cingl, L. & Levely, I. (2020). “How Stress Affects Performance and Competitiveness across Gender” Management Science 66(8) 3295–3310.
Cingl, L., & Korbel, V. (2020). External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers. Economics Letters, 191, 109094.
Urban, J., Bahník, Š., & Braun Kohlová, M. (2019). Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 139–147.
Vranka, M., Frollová, N., Pour, M., Novakova, J., & Houdek, P. (2019). Cheating customers in grocery stores: A field study on dishonesty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101484.
Bahník, Š., & Vranka, M. (2018). Predictors of Bribe-Taking: The Role of Bribe Size and Personality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1511.
Houdek, P. (2017). Is Behavioral Ethics Ready for Giving Business and Policy Advice? Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(1), 48–56.

Funding

Cognitive biases and fallacies in information handling and strategies to prevent them, The field of education. Co-PI: Petr Houdek, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, 2023-2026.
Causal role of environmental identity in pro-environmental behavior, Co-PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
Why don’t birds of a feather always flock together? Imperfect selection of cheaters in cheating-enabling environments, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
Role of social preferences in cooperative behavior, PI: Tomáš Miklánek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
Behavioral Organizational Politics: Experiments in Prosocial Political Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
Experimental study of predictors of corrupt behavior, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2019-2022
Testing External Validity of Experiments on Dishonest Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2018-2021

Research Seminars

We used to host research seminar with a number of guests, including Coby Morvinsky, Gergely Hajdu, Marie Claire Villeval, Michael Zürn, Margarita Leib, Tom Gordon-Hecker, Yochanan Bigman, Avner Ben-Ner, Simon Columbus, Karolina Aleksandra Scigala, Michał Białek, Armenak Antinyan, Nils Köbis, Christian Truelsen Elbæk, Christoph Schild, and Katarzyna Cantarero.