Does competition enhance performance or cheating?: a laboratory experiment
In this paper, we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals’ performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressure...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Journal of economic psychology
Year: 2010, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 241-253 |
| ISSN: | 0167-4870 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joep.2009.02.005 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2009.02.005 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487009000336 
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| Author Notes: | Christiane Schwieren, Doris Weichselbaumer |
| Summary: | In this paper, we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals’ performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressures”, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. ... |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht am 8. April 2009 Gesehen am 11.07.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 0167-4870 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joep.2009.02.005 |