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Signing At the Beginning Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-Reports in Comparison to Signing At the End.

Shu et al. (2012)
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Mark Egan

The authors sought to prime honesty by asking people to sign at the start of a form rather than the end when reporting how many miles they had driven on their car for insurance purposes. In this case there was a financial incentive to report less miles driven since reporting more would mean you would pay more (i.e. a higher number in the graph implies more honesty). The results indicated the treatment to be effective at inducing more honest declarations.