Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation. (23rd June 2015)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation. (23rd June 2015)
- Main Title:
- Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
- Authors:
- Cohn, Alain
Maréchal, Michel André
Noll, Thomas - Abstract:
- Abstract: We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of cheating correlates with inmates' offences against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal identity salience plays a crucial role in rule violating behaviour.
- Is Part Of:
- Review of economic studies. Volume 82:Number 4(2015:Oct.)
- Journal:
- Review of economic studies
- Issue:
- Volume 82:Number 4(2015:Oct.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 82, Issue 4 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 82
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0082-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 1289
- Page End:
- 1308
- Publication Date:
- 2015-06-23
- Subjects:
- Dishonesty -- Identity -- Crime -- Prison -- Experiment
Economics -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0034-6527;screen=info;ECOIP ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/restud/rdv025 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0034-6527
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