Highlights•We compare three types of definitions of self-deception.•We present three
hypotheses regarding the adaptive nature of self-deception.•We review recent empirical …

Unproctored exams have been increasingly adopted by universities globally to assess
students' learning and prevent cheating. Different forms of honor code reminders have been …

Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction
only because they exceed more people's reservation price. This paper shows theoretically …

A challenging aspect of online education is assessment since academic integrity could be
violated due to students' cheating behaviors. The current qualitative research investigated …

Introduction. Despite the abundance of literature on the nature and functions of self‐
deceptive enhancement (SDE), there is still a lack of consensus about whether and when …

There has been extensive research on the causes of academic cheating, but little is known
about its consequences. The current research sought to fill this gap in the literature by …

Criticism of potential drawbacks of mindfulness is crucial for the field to move forward and
remain grounded in reality rather than become carried away by the mindfulness hype. At the …

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) …

Self-centered and other-regarding concerns play important roles in decisions of deception.
To investigate how these two motivations affect deception in fairness related moral …

A substantial minority of patients with terminal illness hold unrealistically hopeful beliefs
about the severity of their disease or the nature of its treatment, considering therapy as …