To Win, or Not to Lose, At Any Cost: The Impact of Achievement Goals on Cheating
通过两项研究，发现人们在职场、体育和教育中的主导成就目标会影响其作弊意图，且施加绩效目标会实际增加任务中的作弊行为，绩效目标比掌握目标更易引发作弊。
We examined the relations between achievement goals and cheating in two studies. The findings from Study 1 show that the extent to which people intend to behave unethically in the areas of work, sport and education is a function of their dominant achievement goals in these particular settings. An even more important addition to the extant literature may be the finding from Study 2 that imposing achievement goals on individuals affects actual cheating behaviour during task performance. Consistent across both studies, performance‐based goals (i.e. goals grounded in an inter personal standard) were more strongly associated with cheating than mastery‐based goals (i.e. goals grounded in an intra personal standard). We conclude that recognizing and understanding the effects of achievement goals on cheating behaviour may enable business leaders, organizations and their employees to create ethical organizations.