Dishonest acts such as corruption, fraud, and tax evasion reduce economic growthand social development. Traditional economics has studied the decision to engage in dishonesty through cost-benefit analysis. However, recent research has shown that this approach is limited, which is the reason why we choose to take a behavioral perspective to investigate dishonesty. Mainly, it seeks to analyze the relationship between dishonesty and social norms with university students. For this purpose, we carried out economic experiments in a laboratory setting. In the experiments, the core activity consisted of rolling a die twelve times and reporting each result obtained anonymously. To perform an intra-individual analysis, each subject is subjected to two rounds: a control and a treatment. At the beginning of the treatment rounds, information on the behavior of other participants was provided through ...

Dishonest acts such as corruption, fraud, and tax evasion reduce economic growthand social development. Traditional economics has studied the decision to engage in dishonesty through cost-benefit analysis. However, recent research has shown that this approach is limited, which is the reason why we choose to take a behavioral perspective to investigate dishonesty. Mainly, it seeks to analyze the relationship between dishonesty and social norms with university students. For this purpose, we carried out economic experiments in a laboratory setting. In the experiments, the core activity consisted of rolling a die twelve times and reporting each result obtained anonymously. To perform an intra-individual analysis, each subject is subjected to two rounds: a control and a treatment. At the beginning of the treatment rounds, information on the behavior of other participants was provided through ...