Do cheaters in the lab cheat in the field as well?
One of the biggest criticisms that psychologists and behavior economists face is about external validity. External validity is a term used to describe the generalizability of experimental results conducted in the lab, to the real world setting. There are several studies that look at the extent that people cheat in the laboratory (see Rosenbaum et al., 2014 ) but we can only conjecture that people who cheat in the lab, cheat outside as well. We can never know for sure. One could argue that participants don't think it is bad to cheat in the lab as it doesn't completely resemble a real life situation. Potters and Stoop (2016) , in a well-designed study, show that cheaters in the lab cheat in the real world as well. This is an important finding because now studies about cheating in the laboratory can use this evidence to justify external validity. They conduct a variant of the Mind game as in Jiang (2013) . There are twenty cards with the to...