英语翻译Our results also suggest that deception itself can facilitate self-justification.In our study,people were far more likely to both misrepresent their performance (in a way that justified taking unearned money) and then take unearned money

英语翻译Our results also suggest that deception itself can facilitate self-justification.In our study,people were far more likely to both misrepresent their performance (in a way that justified taking unearned money) and then take unearned money
英语翻译
Our results also suggest that deception itself can facilitate self-justification.In our study,people were far more likely to both misrepresent their performance (in a way that justified taking unearned money) and then take unearned money than they were to simply take unearned money.
In practice,a number of factors are likely to moderate the relationship between goal setting and unethical behavior.For example,in our study we emphasized participant anonymity.This aspect of our design simulated many organizational settings,such as that of a consultant reporting the number of hours she has worked.In many other settings,however,an individual’s productivity is more transparent,and people are held accountable for specific outcomes.In these contexts,goal setting may not significantly increase unethical behavior.
Another potential moderator of the relationship between goal setting and unethical behavior is the source of a goal.In this experiment we only considered the influence of exogenous goals.Quite possibly,self-generated goals would influence unethical behavior differently.
Future work should also examine the effects of goal failure more broadly.Unlike prior goal setting work,this study imposed a one-minute limit on the word creation task.This aspect of our design increased the likelihood of goal failure but,notably,it also weakened the link between goal setting and performance.Prior work has shown that goal setting impacts performance by motivating people to work more persistently (see Locke & Latham,1990),and other scholars who have used similar word creation tasks with longer time limits (such as three minutes) have documented significant relationships between goal setting and performance (Vance& Colella,1990).
In studying unethical behavior,one important issue to disentangle is whether the type of behavior we observed results from careless mistakes or deliberate actions.Importantly,our pattern of results supports the proposition that many of these cases were calculated lies.First,we found that the over- and understatement scores were not significantly different from each other for the do-your-best condition participants,who had no incentive to overstate performance.Second,we found that the overstatement scores systematically varied across the three experimental conditions in a manner consistent with our thesis.That is,although there may have been some careless overstatements,the systematic pattern of our results cannot be explained by random chance.

英语翻译Our results also suggest that deception itself can facilitate self-justification.In our study,people were far more likely to both misrepresent their performance (in a way that justified taking unearned money) and then take unearned money
【看了楼上几位翻译的,都不很到位.被推荐的那个答案的翻译也有不少错漏.】因为太长,试译第一、二段如下：
“研究结果还表明：欺瞒本身可能会使自我开脱变得容易些.研究中我们发现：比之仅仅是单纯地攫取非分所得,人们更多得多地是趋向于既虚报他们的业绩（一种藉以开脱其非分所得的方法）又拿到非分所得.
在实际工作中,很多因素都有可能缓和工作目标的设定与不道德行为之间的关系.例如：研究中,我们把参与者匿名（的问题）放到了一个突出的位置.就这一方面,我们构拟了许多组织情境,如：咨询员可以汇报她已经工作了的小时数. 然而在其他的许多情境中,个人的生产效能是较显而易见的,而且人人都有着明确的产出责任.在这样一些背景之下,工作目标的设定,并不会促增不道德的行为.”