List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Don A. Moore, George Loewenstein, Daylian M. Cain, and Max H. Bazerman; Part I. Business: 1. Managing conflicts of interest within organizations: does activating social values change the impact of self-interest on behavior? Tom R. Tyler; 2. Commentary: on Tyler's 'Managing conflicts of interest within organizations' Robyn Dawes; 3. A review of experimental and archival conflicts-of-interest research in auditing Mark W. Nelson; 4. Commentary: conflicts of interest in accounting Don A. Moore; 5. Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest Dolly Chugh, Max H. Bazerman and Mahzarin R. Banaji; 6. Commentary: bounded ethicality and conflicts of interest Ann E. Tenbrunsel; 7. Coming clean but playing dirtier: the shortcomings of disclosure as a solution to conflicts of interest Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore; 8. Commentary: psychologically naive assumptions about the perils of conflicts of interest Dale T. Miller; Part II. Medicine: 9. Physicians' financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry: a critical element of a formidable marketing network Jerome P. Kassirer; 10. Commentary: how did we get into this mess? Peter A. Ubel; 11. Why are (some) conflicts of interest in medicine so uniquely vexing? Andrew Stark; 12. Commentary: financial conflicts of interest and the identity of academic medicine Scott Y. H. Kim; Part III. Law: 13. Legal responses to conflicts of interest Samuel Issacharoff; 14. Commentary: conflicts of interest begin where principal-agent problems end George Loewenstein; 15. Conflicts of interest and strategic ignorance of harm Jason Dana; 16. Commentary: strategic ignorance of harm Daylian M. Cain; Part IV. Public Policy: 17. Conflicts of interest in public policy research Robert J. MacCoun; 18. Commentary: conflicts of interest in policy analysis: compliant pawns in their game? Baruch Fischhoff; 19. Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning Robert H. Frank; 20. Commentary: conflict of interest as a threat to consequentialist reasoning David M. Messick; Index.