Quote:However, when their professional identity as bank employees is rendered salient, a significant proportion of them become dishonest. This effect is specific to bank employees because control experiments with employees from other industries and with students show that they do not become more dishonest when their professional identity or bank-related items are rendered salient.
This will probably make me sound stupid. I thought that salient meant most important feature. I am confused how the word is being used in the above sentence. Is it saying that bank employees who identify the most with their jobs are the more dishonest then other types of employees?
