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Students are more tempted to cheat in tests when their self-control is already depleted from a previous demanding task, according to experiments with 1,143 students aged 9-16
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260141
Article Title: Do exhausted primary school students cheat more? A randomized field experiment
Author Countries: Hungary
Funding: T.K and H.J.K acknowledge support from the Institute of Economics' internal grant that supported innovative research ideas during the COVID-19 epidemic. T.K. acknowledges support from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH (grant number K-135766), from the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BO/00569/21/9) and from the ÚNKP-21-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund. H.J.K. acknowledges support from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH (grant number K-119683).
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Do exhausted primary school students cheat more? A randomized field experiment
Article Publication Date
1-Dec-2021
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.