Even a casually mentioned dead student’s ghost deters cheating among university students

Evidence

Participants who were randomly assigned to a condition in which they were casually told that the ghost of a dead student had been spotted in the experimental room cheated less on a rigged computer task. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 136

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the Big God mechanism: salient supernatural watchers, even non-deities, reduce dishonest behavior in adults.