Cheating amongst youth offenders: How peers and their social status influence cheating
通过对204名青少年囚犯的实验，研究同伴如何通过影响作弊的内在心理成本来改变其作弊行为，发现天生不诚实的囚犯更易受同伴作弊信号影响，且信号来自有影响力的同伴时效果更强。
Abstract We conducted an experiment with 204 youth inmates to study how the intrinsic psychological cost of cheating that was shaped by peers changed inmates' cheating behavior. We find that innately dishonest inmates who naively revealed their higher willingness to cheat indeed cheated more in the actual game. When given the chance to observe an imperfect signal of whether a peer cheated, only innately dishonest inmates followed this signal and cheated more. This positive treatment effect increases with the saliency of the signal, and becomes more pronounced when the cheating signal is from an influential peer.