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Sports Outfitter Case Study

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Immediately after learning about Sports Outfitters, participants proceeded to read one of the two cashier mistake scenarios before evaluating how ethical they considered the actor was in the scenarios. For both scenarios, participants read how the key actor, Jenny, was handling a cashier’s change mistake when she was shopping at Sports Outfitters. The manipulation of identity overlap was achieved by describing Jenny either as a typical university student such as the participant (i.e., high identity overlap), or a typical employee of another business who currently works at a company in Los Angeles (i.e. low identity overlap). Specifically, participants in the high- social overlap conditions read:
“Jenny is a university undergraduate student.

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