Cheating amongst youth offenders: How peers and their social status influence cheating.
We conducted an experiment with 204 youth inmates to study how the intrinsic psychological cost of cheating that was shaped by peers changed inmates' cheating behavior. We find that innately dishonest inmates who naively revealed their higher willingness to cheat indeed cheated more in the actual ga...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 242 - 267 |
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