Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content.

Autor: Zickfeld JH; Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. jhzickfeld@gmail.com., Ścigała KA; Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Elbæk CT; Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Michael J; Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy., Tønnesen MH; Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Levy G; Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway., Ayal S; Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel., Thielmann I; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany., Nockur L; Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Peer E; Federmann School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel., Capraro V; Department of Psychology, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy., Barkan R; Department of Business Administration, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel., Bø S; Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway., Bahník Š; Department of Management, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic., Nosenzo D; Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Hertwig R; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany., Mazar N; Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA., Weiss A; Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany., Koessler AK; Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany., Montal-Rosenberg R; Federmann School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel., Hafenbrädl S; IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain., Nielsen YA; Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Kanngiesser P; School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK., Schindler S; Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences, Berlin, Germany., Gerlach P; Fresenius University, Hamburg, Germany., Köbis N; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.; Center for Trustworthy Data Science and Security, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany., Jacquemet N; Paris School of Economics, Paris, France.; CES, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France., Vranka M; Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic., Ariely D; Fuqua School of Busisness, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA., Martuza JB; Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway., Feldman Y; Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel., Białek M; Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland., Woike JK; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.; School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK., Rahwan Z; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany., Seidl A; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany.; Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau, Germany., Chou E; Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA., Kajackaite A; Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, Milan, Italy., Schudy S; Institute of Economics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.; CESifo Munich, Munich, Germany., Glogowsky U; CESifo Munich, Munich, Germany.; Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria., Czarna AZ; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland., Pfattheicher S; Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark., Mitkidis P; Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature human behaviour [Nat Hum Behav] 2024 Oct 21. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0
Abstrakt: Dishonest behaviours such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex ante honesty oaths-commitments to honesty before action-have been proposed as interventions to counteract dishonest behaviour, but the heterogeneity in findings across operationalizations calls their effectiveness into question. We tested 21 honesty oaths (including a baseline oath)-proposed, evaluated and selected by 44 expert researchers-and a no-oath condition in a megastudy involving 21,506 UK and US participants from Prolific.com who played an incentivized tax evasion game online. Of the 21 interventions, 10 significantly improved tax compliance by 4.5 to 8.5 percentage points, with the most successful nearly halving tax evasion. Limited evidence for moderators was found. Experts and laypeople failed to predict the most effective interventions, though experts' predictions were more accurate. In conclusion, honesty oaths were effective in curbing dishonesty, but their effectiveness varied depending on content. These findings can help design impactful interventions to curb dishonesty.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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