Simon successfully defended his PhD thesis, at the Department of Management, on Nov 22nd! In his PhD, Simon investigated the emergence of corrupt practices in hierarchical teams. Exploring the role of incentive structures, personality, and social influences in so-called collaborative corruption, i.e., cheating together for joint profit, Simon found that cheating collaboratively leads to generally increased rates of dishonesty and greater intra-group trust. In other words, after having cheating collaboratively, people feel closer to each other, and trust each other more – becoming partners in crime. The full dissertation can be found here: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/partners-in-crime(bec46e30-fd96-4230-b009-b85704e46021).html

Dimitrios successfully defended his PhD thesis, at the Department of Management, on Nov 23rd! Whistleblowing is experienced as a moral dilemma arising from conflicting values that individuals internalize as part of their social identities. As the decision to blow the whistle involves a trade-off between such values, Dimitrios' thesis titled "A social psychological study of whistleblowing" applied a social identity framework for the study of whistleblowing. 

Congratulations to both of you!