Believing behaviour is determined increases actual cheating

Evidence

Research on belief in freedom: J. Baggini, Freedom Regained (London: Granta, 2015), 35, citing K. D. Vohs and J. W. Schooler, ‘The Value of Believing in Free Will: encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating’, Psychological Science, 19 (1) (2008), 49–54. Subjects who had read a passage implying that behaviour is deterministic were more inclined to cheat on a task than those who had not. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1938

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Sartre’s existentialist insistence that we are radically free and responsible — belief in freedom appears to have measurable behavioral consequences. — connects to: Being watched cues reliably boost prosocial behavior and suppress cheating
• SHARE: A specific experiment worth sending to anyone interested in free will or experimental moral psychology.

Broader Connections

• Being watched cues reliably boost prosocial behavior and suppress cheating #contradicts (0.75)