Why we should view the decision of medical trainees to cheat as the product of a person‐by‐situation interaction

S Weeks, J Desy, K McLaughlin - Medical Education, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cheating during medical training is a delicate subject matter with varying
opinions on the prevalence, causes and gravity of cheating during training. Proposed …

Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less

L Zhao, H Mao, PL Harris, K Lee - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Trust and honesty are essential for human interactions. Philosophers since antiquity have
long posited that they are causally linked. Evidence shows that honesty elicits trust from …

Hearing about a story character's negative emotional reaction to having been dishonest causes young children to cheat less

L Zhao, Y Li, W Sun, Y Zheng… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is extensive research on the development of cheating in early childhood but research
on how to reduce it is rare. The present preregistered study examined whether telling young …

Bidirectional negative relation between young children's persistence and cheating

L Zhao, J Peng, K Lee - Child Development, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
This research examined the link between persistence and cheating in 3‐to 6‐year‐old
children (2021–2022, N= 200, 100 boys; M age= 4.85 years; all middle‐class Han Chinese) …

High consistency of cheating and honesty in early childhood

Y Zheng, K Lee, L Zhao - Developmental Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Three preregistered studies examined whether 5‐year‐old children cheat consistently or
remain honest across multiple math tests. We observed high consistency in both honesty …

Young children with higher verbal intelligence are less likely to cheat

L Zhao, W Sun, K Lee - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cheating is a pervasive unethical behavior. Existing research involving young children has
mainly focused on contextual factors affecting cheating behavior, whereas cognitive factors …

Thriving by Design: Can Behavioral Economics and Public Policy Shape Virtuous Lives?

A Hortal - Behanomics, 2024 - behanomics.com
Basándonos en la economía del comportamiento, los nudges (intervenciones de política
basadas en la arquitectura de elección) tienen la capacidad de dar forma estratégica a la …

[PDF][PDF] Virtue nudges: using choice architecture to form virtuous citizens

A Hortal - Available at SSRN 4274050, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Nudges are policy interventions intended to change people's behaviors and habits by
organizing the choice environment. They aim to facilitate the right behavior as judged by …

Leveraging Nudge Theory to Promote Adult Gesture Use During Read-Aloud Experiences With Young Children

BL Hall, HY Holland, J Brendle… - Communication …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Nudge theory, a strategy to influence decision-making, holds promise for enhancing an
adult's use of evidence-based strategies during a read-aloud experience with a young child …

Default settings affect children's decisions about whether to be honest

L Zhao, H Mao, J Zheng, G Fu, BJ Compton… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Behavioral economics research has revealed that our decision-making can be biased by
default settings. That is, all other things being equal, adults tend to choose default options …