The phrase "affect honesty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain actions or behaviors influence or impact the quality of honesty in a situation.
Example: "The pressure to meet sales targets can significantly affect honesty in reporting results."
Alternatives: "influence integrity" or "impact truthfulness".
To see how social situations affect honesty, they created tests that made it easy to cheat, then looked at what happened if they reminded people right before the test of a moral rule.
In a 2012 study, the research team of Lisa Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max Bazerman set out to test whether something as simple as the location of a signature on a form could affect honesty.
There is an affecting honesty in all this; it takes courage to admit to these kinds of vulnerabilities.
In "Top Five," he sifts through — with on-point jokes, boisterous slapstick, affecting honesty and a sharply honed and earned sense of history — issues of artificiality and authenticity, the spectacle of black celebrity and the imperative of personal meaning.
Hannan, Rankin, and Towry (2006, HRT hereafter) propose that an information system is capable of affecting honesty in the manager's budget report by reducing information asymmetry between the manager and the owner regarding the level of honesty in the budget.
In a monologue written by Michele Lowe ("The Smell of the Kill") and performed with affecting honesty by Ms. Graff, a divorced mother describes her sympathetic but complicated reaction to her young son's desire to attend the Purim reading at the synagogue dressed as the heroine of the story, Queen Esther.
It's not difficult to spot the professionally trained performers among the cast, but it's also beside the point: A signature of Cornerstone productions is the affecting honesty and inclusiveness that transcends the artifice of stagecraft, and this one is no exception.
Our second experiment investigates whether the preferences of the beneficiaries of the slack affect managers' honesty.
The "fundamental" role of election officials is to detect "anything that could affect the honesty or integrity of the election," Craig Burkhardt, a Bush lawyer, told the Broward County canvassing board.
He said of Eric Idle: "[He] was frank enough to acknowledge that he now disliked Mr Forstater, but he expressed the hope that, in his evidence, he was being honest and that his dislike did not affect his honesty.
Such personal relationships can affect the honesty and integrity of the review process, and discourage employees from working harder and being engaged in their efforts.
