Do cheaters in the lab also cheat in the field?

Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct

“…We find a significant relationship between laboratory and field measures of rule violating behaviour despite differences across the two settings, including the context of the choice situation and the degree of scrutinyfactors which have been argued to make inferences from lab to field environments difficult. Our findings concur with very recent results from studies that document positive correlations between lab and field measures of dishonesty (Potters and Stoop, 2016;Kr€ oll and Rustagi, 2017;Dai et al 2018). The fact that these correlations emerge from independent studies that use different methods and subject pools is reassuring for the usefulness of laboratory measures of behaviour, especially cheating behaviour, as cheating has been conjectured to be more context-sensitive than other types of behaviour, such as cooperativeness and consumption choices (Abeler et al, 2014).…”

“…He found that sellers who breached collusive agreements in contextualised laboratory experiments were also more likely to do so in the field. More recently, Potters and Stoop (2016) and Kr€ oll and Rustagi (2017) find that subjects who cheat in the laboratory are also less likely to report 'accidental' overpayments and are more likely to adulterate milk with water, respectively. 8 Externalising behaviour and misconduct in school are typically seen as expressions of non-cognitive skills and relate to personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness (Ehrler et al, 1999;Almlund et al, 2011).…”

Dishonesty in health care practice: A behavioral experiment on upcoding in neonatology

“…Theoretical argumentation and empirical evidence suggest that this seems not to be the case. Several recent studies showing that behavior in lying experiments significantly correlates with cheating behavior outside the lab (Cohn & Marechal, 2018;Dai, Galeotti, & Villeval, 2017;Hanna & Wang, 2017;Potters & Stoop, 2016); see Abeler et al (forthcoming) for a comprehensive overview. From an empirical point of view, audits alone (without a fine) do not seem to significantly affect health care providers' behavior (Lindeboom et al, 2016).…”

“…In addition, those subjects who engaged in behavior considered severely dishonest in college also engaged in behavior considered severely dishonest at work. Several recent studies showing that behavior in lying experiments significantly correlates with cheating behavior outside the lab (Cohn & Marechal, 2018;Dai, Galeotti, & Villeval, 2017;Hanna & Wang, 2017;Potters & Stoop, 2016); see Abeler et al (forthcoming) for a comprehensive overview. 15 In Germany, hospitals are audited by the MDK of the SHI.…”

Preferences for Truth‐Telling

“…While no individual report can be identified as truthful or not (and subjects should thus report the payoff‐maximizing outcome under the standard economic assumption), the researcher can judge the reports of a group of subjects. This paradigm is the one used most widely in the literature and several recent studies have shown that behavior in it correlates well with cheating behavior outside the lab (Hanna and Wang (), Cohn and Maréchal (), Cohn, Maréchal, and Noll (), Gächter and Schulz (), Potters and Stoop (), Dai, Galeotti, and Villeval ())…”