Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Psychol Bull. 2019 Jan;145(1):1-44. doi: 10.1037/bul0000174.
Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis)honest behavior are to some extent unclear and even contradictory. A systematic analysis of the factors associated with dishonest behavior thus seems desirable. This meta-analysis reviews four of the most widely used experimental paradigms: sender-receiver games, die-roll tasks, coin-flip tasks, and matrix tasks. We integrate data from 565 experiments (totaling N = 44,050 choices) to address many of the ongoing debates on who behaves dishonestly and under what circumstances. Our findings show that dishonest behavior depends on both situational factors, such as reward magnitude and externalities, and personal factors, such as the participant's gender and age. Further, laboratory studies are associated with more dishonesty than field studies, and the use of deception in experiments is associated with less dishonesty. To some extent, the different experimental paradigms come to different conclusions. For example, a comparable percentage of people lie in die-roll and matrix tasks, but in die-roll tasks liars lie to a considerably greater degree. We also find substantial evidence for publication bias in almost all measures of dishonest behavior. Future research on dishonesty would benefit from more representative participant pools and from clarifying why the different experimental paradigms yield different conclusions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
在过去的十年中,大量且不断增加的实验研究分析了不诚实行为。然而,人们何时会表现出(不)诚实行为的发现在某种程度上并不清楚,甚至相互矛盾。因此,系统地分析与不诚实行为相关的因素似乎是可取的。本元分析回顾了最常用的四种实验范式:发送者-接收者游戏、掷骰子任务、掷硬币任务和矩阵任务。我们整合了来自 565 项实验的数据(总计 N = 44050 次选择),以解决关于谁表现出不诚实行为以及在什么情况下表现出不诚实行为的许多持续存在的争论。我们的研究结果表明,不诚实行为既取决于情境因素,如奖励大小和外部性,也取决于个人因素,如参与者的性别和年龄。此外,实验室研究比现场研究更有可能导致不诚实行为,而在实验中使用欺骗则与较少的不诚实行为相关。在某种程度上,不同的实验范式得出了不同的结论。例如,在掷骰子和矩阵任务中,说谎者的比例相当,但在掷骰子任务中,说谎者的说谎程度要大得多。我们还发现,几乎所有不诚实行为的衡量指标都存在大量的发表偏倚证据。未来的不诚实行为研究将受益于更具代表性的参与者群体,并阐明为什么不同的实验范式会得出不同的结论。(PsycINFO 数据库记录(c)2018 APA,保留所有权利)。
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