ArticleiScience2022
Reduced ownership over a virtual body modulates dishonesty.
Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Embodied morality in a disembodied world: Dishonesty in real online interactions.Computers in human behavior reports · 2026Article
- Dopaminergic modulation of the sense of agency influences moral behavior in Parkinson's disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Non-immersive robot teleoperation does not reliably affect egocentric dishonesty but can influence altruistic dishonesty.iScience · 2026Article
- Differential interference of body- and non-body-related representational conflicts on error and performance monitoring in flanker tasks.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Subjective reliving of past events is modulated by premotor-hippocampal coupling and bodily self-consciousness during event encoding.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The impact of shared sense of agency and moral dispositions on intergroup dishonesty.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Ownership of the affected leg is further reduced following deceptive behaviors in body integrity dysphoria.iScience · 2023Article
- Embodying the avatar of an omnipotent agent modulates the perception of one's own abilities and enhances feelings of invulnerability.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Morality in the flesh: on the link between bodily self-consciousness, moral identity and (dis)honest behaviour.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Bringing social interaction at the core of organizational neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- The impact of mindfulness meditation on social and moral behavior: Does mindfulness enhance other-oriented motivation or decrease monetary reward salience?Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although studies suggest that even higher-order functions can be embodied, whether body awareness may bias moral decisions toward (dis)honesty remains underinvestigated. Here, we tested if the Sense of body Ownership (SoO) and the magnitude of monetary rewards influence the tendency to act immorally. Through a virtual body, participants played a card game in which they could lie to others to steal high or low amounts of money. To manipulate SoO, the virtual body was seen and controlled from a first-person perspective, with hands attached or detached, or from a third-person perspective. In third-person perspective, SoO was significantly reduced and more egoistic lies were produced in high reward conditions. Thus, SoO reduction and high monetary reward facilitate dishonest behavior, likely by separating the self from the dishonest actions performed through the disowned body. Because most future interactions will likely occur in a digital metaverse, our results may have crucial societal impact.
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