Until recently, many psychologists were skeptical that young children cared about
reputation. New evidence suggests that by age five, children begin to understand the broad …

Reputation is a powerful driver of human behavior. Reputation systems incentivize'actors' to
take reputation-enhancing actions, and'evaluators' to reward actors with positive reputations …

Scientific research on how children learn to tell lies has existed for more than a century.
Earlier studies mainly focused on moral, social, and situational factors contributing to the …

This preregistered meta-analysis investigated whether cultural values moderate the
relations between students' achievement orientations and their tendency to cheat. We …

This research presents a nudge-based approach to promoting honest behavior. Specifically,
we introduce the moral barrier hypothesis, which posits that moral violations can be inhibited …

Method Participants were 300 preschool children in eastern China: one hundred fifty 3-year-
olds (age range= 3.08 to 4.00 years, M= 3.62, SD= 0.27; 71 boys, 79 girls) and one hundred …

Although delay-of-gratification tasks have long been used as measures of self-control,
recent evidence suggests that performance on these tasks is also driven by rational decision …

Previous research on nudges conducted with adults suggests that the accessibility of
behavioral options can influence people's decisions. The present study examined whether …

Cheating is harmful to others and society at large. Promises have been shown to increase
honesty in children, but their effectiveness has not been compared between different cultural …

Academic cheating is common, but little is known about its early emergence. It was
examined among Chinese second to sixth graders (N= 2094; 53% boys, collected between …