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How do leaders and colleagues whom we believed to be honorable end up conducting major acts of dishonesty? A clever series of computer-based experiments examined this question. Fifty-five study participants were told that they would be paid for providing accurate estimates of how many coins were in a jar to their partners (who were secretly part of the experiment) and that they had a better view of the jar than their partners. Later they were given different incentives: Coin overestimates could lead to more reimbursement to the participant (self-serving), to the partner (other-serving), or to both participant and partner (self- and other-serving); or to more reimbursement to the participant but a loss to the partner (self-serving and other-…