The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty

We provide the first investigation of relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In wave we vary level awareness subjects' past dishonesty explore impact on behaviour tasks that include scope to lie. second degree competitiveness one our core further interactions self-awareness, (dis)honesty competition. also test for experimental demand effect order rule it out. Our results suggest non-interactive tasks, helps lower future. However, are competitive nature becoming more aware raises likelihood other words, show when making people their own can help reduce might back-fire.