To answer these questions, I use experimental methods, often involving incentivized tasks, hierarchical structures, and novel tools like virtual reality, to capture behavior in controlled yet realistic settings. My goal is to bring empirical precision to topics that are often treated as philosophical or abstract.

Selected Publications
• Légeret, M., Zehnder, C., & Tur, B. (2025). How good can bad leaders be? The opportunity costs of leader selection. The Leadership Quarterly, 36(2), 101856. Link
• Légeret, M., & Zehnder, C. (2022). Self-regulation after temptation?. Economics Letters, 214, 110436. Link
• Légeret, M., & Hoffrage, U. (2021). From washing hands to washing consciences and polishing reputations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44. Link
Full list available on Google Scholar

Working Papers
• [Title withheld for peer review] – 3rd-round Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Management.
Joint work with Moritz Gruban and Patrick Haack
• [Title withheld for peer review] – under review at Journal of Business Ethics. Joint work with Moritz Gruban
• Realism in Moral Decisions: How Virtual Reality Activates Personality in Moral Dilemmas. Joint work with Laetitia Renier, Emmanuelle Kleinlogel, and Marianne Schmid Mast
• Distrust in Charities: Motivated Beliefs in Charitable Giving. Joint work with Konstantinos Armaos

Current Projects
• The transmission of organizational misconduct: How unethical behavior spreads across generations of employees. Joint work with Sirio Lonati
• Moral spillovers: Bidirectional effects between judgment expression and moral behavior. Joint work with Moritz Gruban
• Prebunking conspiracy theories: Experimental tests of resistance to misinformation. Joint work with Jan Engelmann and Jan Hausfeld
• The temporal dynamics of moral decision-making.
• Cultural roots of moral norms: Comparing moral judgments among migrant generations. Joint work with Sirio Lonati