Institutional quarantine and dishonest behavior

IF 2.5 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2024.102756

Wenhua Wang , Peikun Chen , Jianbiao Li, Xiaofei Niu

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Quarantine has been implemented worldwide to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Although recent literature has outlined the mental and psychological costs of quarantine, its ethical costs are not fully understood. In two online experiments conducted during an institutional quarantine event (481 participants), we find that institutional quarantine leads to more dishonest behavior, including lying about the outcome of a random-draw task and overreporting one’s performance in a real-effort task to gain financial benefits. By directly manipulating individuals’ perceived psychological ownership, we provide suggestive evidence that psychological ownership may be one mechanism underlying the relationship between institutional quarantine and dishonest behavior. A complementary experiment (226 participants) suggests that anxiety and frustration may also serve as explanatory factors for this effect. We then discuss the implications of our findings, which may inspire approaches to mitigate the negative effects of institutional quarantine on honesty.

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制度隔离和不诚实行为

为减少 COVID-19 等传染病的传播，世界各地都实施了隔离措施。虽然最近的文献概述了隔离的精神和心理成本，但对其道德成本还没有充分了解。在一次机构检疫活动中进行的两项在线实验（481 名参与者）中，我们发现机构检疫会导致更多的不诚实行为，包括谎报随机抽签任务的结果和多报自己在实际努力任务中的表现以获得经济利益。通过直接操纵个体感知到的心理所有权，我们提供了暗示性证据，证明心理所有权可能是制度隔离与不诚实行为之间关系的一种潜在机制。一项补充实验（226 名参与者）表明，焦虑和挫败感也可能是这种效应的解释因素。然后，我们讨论了我们的发现的意义，这些发现可能会启发我们采取一些方法来减轻制度隔离对诚实的负面影响。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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