Cheating amongst youth offenders: How peers and their social status influence cheating

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1111/ecin.13168

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Sharon Xuejing Zuo

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Abstract

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 game. When given the chance to observe an imperfect signal of whether a peer cheated, only innately dishonest inmates followed this signal and cheated more. This positive treatment effect increases with the saliency of the signal, and becomes more pronounced when the cheating signal is from an influential peer.

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青少年罪犯的欺骗行为:同伴及其社会地位如何影响欺骗行为

我们以 204 名青少年囚犯为对象进行了一项实验，研究同龄人塑造的作弊内在心理成本如何改变囚犯的作弊行为。我们发现，天生不诚实的囚犯如果天真地暴露了自己较高的作弊意愿，那么他们在实际游戏中的作弊行为确实会更多。当有机会观察到同伴是否作弊的不完美信号时，只有先天不诚实的囚犯才会遵循这一信号，并做出更多的作弊行为。这种积极的治疗效果会随着信号的显著性而增加，当作弊信号来自有影响力的同伴时，这种效果会更加明显。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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