Investigating the psychological aspects of unethical behaviors is one of the most important issues in the field of accounting and finance. This study aimed to investigate the effect of psychological variables including social dominance, Machiavellianism, and emotional manipulation on profit management. The research was conducted in 2020 by collecting data with Non-Probability sampling method convenience. For this purpose, a sample of 401 accounting experts, accounting heads, and financial managers of the firms listed in the Stock Market was selected. The results were obtained from structural equations. They show that social dominance, emotional manipulation, and Machiavellianism have a positive effect on the willingness towards opportunistic profit management. In the efficient mode of the tendency towards profit management, two variables of social dominance and emotional manipulation have a positive effect on the tendency towards profit management, but the effect of Machiavellianism on this tendency is refuted. Furthermore, Machiavellianism affects profit management positively and indirectly through social dominance and emotional manipulation. The results show that management motivation for profit management is influenced by behavioral, organizational, and psychological characteristics. The research evidence enhances our understanding of the effect of behavioral characteristics of management on decisions on profit management.

Ethics compliance is very important in the auditing profession. Ethical behavior as a social behavior depends on the attitude and social orientations of the society. One of these orientations is social dominance. So, the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between social dominance and moral dis-engagement in the auditing profession. This research is a survey research and the statistical sample of the research includes 229 auditors working in auditing organizations and private auditing firms that listed  on  the Iranian  Association of Certified Public  Accountants .The information needed for the current research was collected by completing the questionnaire in 2022 and using the available sampling method. The results of the research show that moral dis-engagement and social domination are not significantly different between women and men, auditors of auditing organizations and private auditing firms, as well as among auditors with different educational levels. Also, research evidence confirms that there is a positive and significant relationship between social dominance and auditors' moral dis-engagement. Gender, work experience, education and place of employment of the auditor has no significant relationship with moral dis-engagement. The results of this research can inform policy makers of the auditing profession about the level of moral disengagement and social dominance of auditors and also the relationship between these two variables.