Cheating is often thought of as something that is done after cold calculation. But the new research has found that people are prone to cheat even when it is not in their best interest.
Even more surprisingly, the experimenters found a way to limit cheating that had nothing to do with the threat of getting caught.
When they asked subjects to write down as many of the Ten Commandments as they could remember before taking the test, it virtually eliminated cheating.
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