No influence of simple moral awareness cues on cheating behaviour in an online experiment

Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Philipp Stratmann and Rainer Michael Rilke

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2024, vol. 108, issue C

Abstract: We study the influence of moral awareness cues on cheating in an online experiment (n = 551). People’s awareness of ethical issues is a pre-condition of moral behaviour. The results show that reminding people of the different ethical dimensions of their actions does not reduce cheating. Our results highlight that raising moral awareness in an online experiment is not sufficient to mitigate cheating behaviour.

Keywords: Cheating; Moral awareness; Behavioural ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102126

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