The Effect of Individual and Group Punishment on Individual and Group-Based Dishonesty

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rcb79_v2
• Publication Date: 2025-03-20T19:57:44Z
• Authors: Janis Zickfeld; Mathilde Tønning ...; Christian T. Elbaek; Thais Cardarelli; Karolina Aleksand...; Stefan Pfattheicher; Panagiotis Mitkidis
• Keywords: Dishonesty; Punishment (psychology)

Economic dishonesty is a widespread behavior that has substantial implications on organizations and societies. Recent studies suggest decision making in groups or commitment to other individuals can further increase such contrast individual making. Various interventions have been suggested curb the most classical economic approaches emphasize use of punishment by focusing both risk (“how likely am I get caught?”) severity (“what fine will be imposed?”) punishment, respectively. However, effects punishments are mixed it currently unclear if effective collaborative settings. Here, we provide high-powered online study (N = 630) collecting UK-based Prolific participants which manipulate (1) type payoff (whether earns money for group), (2) (no 30% audit chance), (3) punished whole group case getting caught). The shed light interplay between specifics as well advance understanding under conditions might curbing dishonesty.