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SUBMITTER: Gross J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7897793 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gross Jörg J De Dreu Carsten K W CKW
Personality & social psychology bulletin 20200617 3
Compared with working alone, interacting in groups can increase dishonesty and give rise to collaborative cheating-the joint violation of honesty. At the same time, collaborative cheating emerges some but not all of the time, even when dishonesty is not sanctioned and economically rational. Here, we address this conundrum. We show that people differ in their extent to follow arbitrary and costly rules and observe that "rule-followers" behave more honestly than "rule-violators." Because rule-foll ...[more]