Are Unethical Behaviors Always Selfish? : It Depends on Your Social Class, Gender and Beneficiary of the Behavior

We found the relationship between social class and unethical behavior is moderated by gender and the beneficiary of the behavior. Results indicated that upper-class men were more likely to engage in self-beneficial unethical behavior than other-beneficial unethical behavior, whereas upper-class women showed no such difference in engaging in unethical behavior.