Darkness Increases Dishonesty and Self-Interested Behavior

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Let’s be honest: A review of experimental evidence of honesty and truth-telling (2014, background): “…study investigating the influence of lighting (and thus perceptions of detection among subjects) on the number of misrepresented matrix solutions, Zhong, Bohn, and Gino (2010) found that subjects in a dimly-lit room were significantly more likely to cheat than counterparts in the well-lit…”
Why Do We Lie? A Practical Guide To The Dishonesty Literature (2018, background): “These include classical economic tasks such as the dictator games (Gino et al., 2009b; Mazar and Zhong, 2010; Zhong et al., 2010; Eisenkopf et al., 2011; Shaw et al., 2014), trust games (Charness and Dufwenberg, 2006) and ultimatum games (Moran and Schweitzer, 2008; Eisenkopf et al., 2011; Shalvi…”