In 2014, Casciaro, Gino, and Kouchaki (hereafter CGK) published an influential paper for our understanding of networking behaviors. Specifically, the authors offered experimental evidence that people view networking actions as morally impure, which leads them to feel physically dirty when networking, which ultimately heightens the mental accessibility of cleansing-related concepts. In the present paper, I challenge the theoretical premise and the empirical evidence presented in CGK. To that e...
