The effect of ethical standards on self-deception in unethical behavior

In data preprocessing, in order to ensure statistical effects, participants should not choose too few instances of honesty or deception among all trials (Shuster&Levy, 2020; Zheltyakova & Kireev, 2020)。 According to previous literature, this experiment included data from subjects with deception rates between 10% and 90%, and excluded data with deception rates less than 10% or greater than 90%.

In data processing and presentation, the average of the two probabilities of participants switching from the right option to the left option in the lottery task is recorded as their true belief (Ptrue). Record the bonus received by the receiver in the sender receiver task paradigm as an unknown random probability (P). In the statistical analysis of data, this experiment conducted a repeated measures ANOVA of 2 (group: moral standards group vs. control group) x 2 (behavioral decision-making: deception vs. honesty) on the proportion of deception and honesty trials that selected the "P