Abstract
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to test how the request to sign a no-cheating declaration affects truth-telling. We find that the effects strongly depend on the declaration's content. Signing a no-cheating declaration increases truth-telling if it is morally charged, does not affect behavior if it is morally neutral, and reduces truth-telling if it is morally neutral and threatens to punish. The latter effect is driven by subjects with particularly high values on Hong's Psychological Reactance Scale. These are subjects with a tendency to push back if their freedom of choice is restricted.
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