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  • Ilse Lehiste

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 87 / Issue 2 / June 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 384-389
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  • Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: evidence from RCTs in five countries

  • Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Markus Tepe, Saar Alon-Barkat, Florian Erlbruch, Omer Yair, Michael Jankowski, Christine Prokop-Scheer
  • Journal:
    Behavioural Public Policy , First View
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    19 February 2026, pp. 1-19
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  • Honest behavior of public sector workers is an important quality of governance, impacting the functioning of government institutions, the level of corruption, economic development and public trust. Scholars often assume that honesty is inherent to public sector culture, however empirical evidence on the causal effect of public sector culture on honest behavior is lacking. This research addresses this question by estimating the causal effect of priming public sector identity on the honest behavior of public employees. We validated an instrument for priming public sector identity and employed it in five preregistered incentivized experiments among civil servants in Germany, Israel, Italy, Sweden, and the UK (N = 2,827). We find no evidence for the effect of public sector culture on honest behavior in both individual (four studies) and collaborative (one study) tasks. The theoretical implications of these results for the study of moral behavior in the public sector are discussed.

  • Measuring linguistic complexity independent of plausibility

  • Jeff Gruber, Edward Gibson
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 3 / September 2004
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    19 February 2026, pp. 583-590

  • Many factors affect the ease or difficulty of understanding a word in a sentence, including the lexical frequency of the word, the syntactic context, the discourse context, the intonation of the sentence, and the plausibility of the situation described by the sentence thus far (see Gibson & Pearlmutter 1998 and Tanenhaus & Trueswell 1995 for summaries of relevant factors and evidence). In order to investigate any one of these factors, it is therefore necessary to control for the others. One factor that has recently begun to be investigated in the psycholinguistics literature is the derivational complexity of different lexical structures. In order to investigate lexical derivational complexity, researchers have compared reading times and sentence-acceptability judgments for different kinds of noun-verb pairs. Unfortunately, these measures are necessarily contaminated by potential differences in plausibility between the real-world situations described by the particular sentences that are used to instantiate the structures. For example, consider McKoon and Macfarland's (2000; henceforth M&M) evidence that externally caused change-of-state verbs are more complex than internally caused change-of-state verbs (see Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995 for a lexical-semantic distinction between the two types of verbs). M&M demonstrated that participants were slower in deciding that externally caused sentences like la were acceptable than they were in deciding that internally caused sentences like 1b were acceptable.

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