Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
在最高安全级别监狱对182名囚犯的实验发现，当犯罪身份被刻意凸显时，囚犯的作弊行为显著增加，而普通公民不受类似提醒影响，且实验中的作弊行为与囚犯的实际违规记录相关。
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of cheating correlates with inmates' offences against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal identity salience plays a crucial role in rule violating behaviour.