External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers

Honesty in the Digital Age

“…However, reporting a high success rate might be judged as suspicious and undermine a subject's appearance of being an honest person. The coin tossing task and variations of it have been extensively used to study dishonest behavior (see Bucciol and Piovesan, 2011;Houser et al, 2012;Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi, 2013; see also Abeler et al, 2019 for a meta-analysis) and the task has been shown to reliably predict rule-violating behavior in natural settings, including violations of prison rules (Cohn et al, 2015;Cingl and Korbel, 2020), misbehavior in school (Cohn and Maréchal, 2018), absenteeism in the workplace (Hanna and Wang, 2017), free riding on public transport (Dai et al, 2018), and adulteration of milk (Kröll and Rustagi, 2016).…”

Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence

“…Our study links to an expanding experimental literature on the determinants of unethical behaviour (e.g., Gneezy, 2005;Erat and Gneezy, 2012;Houser et al, 2012;Charness et al, 2014;Abeler et al, 2019). It particularly adds to a nascent literature studying unethical behaviour outside laboratory experiments with convenience student samples, including children (e.g., Bucciol and Piovesan, 2011), prisoners (Cohn et al, 2015;Cingl and Korbel, 2020) and financial professionals (Cohn et al, 2014;Cohn et al, 2017;Rahwan et al, 2019). Abeler et al (2014) and Fosgaard (2020) are the only studies to examine honesty among representative samples.…”

Can We Commit Future Managers to Honesty?

“…We assign these future managers to always be in the role of the Sender, and we 1 While the control over the environment offered by a laboratory experiment is better suited to testbed the effect of the oath on future managers, it raises the obvious concern of whether these results would extend to a non-laboratory setting. On this issue, we refer the reader to the literature that correlates lying in lab experiments to unethical behavior in the field (e.g., Potters and Stoop, 2016;Dai et al, 2017;Hanna and Wang, 2017;Cingl and Korbel, 2020) and the ones that investigate both truth-telling behavior under oath in the context of field experiments (Carlsson et al, 2013;Koessler et al, 2019;Jacquemet et al, 2021) ot the long-lasting effects of promises (Peer and Feldman, 2021). 2 An alternative interpretation of the effect of the oath is the idea that it simply primes subjects to truth-telling.…”