TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ marital status, psychological counseling and dishonest kindergarten children
T2 - An experimental study
AU - Tobol, Yossef
AU - Yaniv, Gideon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents’ marital status (divorced or non-divorced) and psychological counseling (administered or not) on the honesty level of kindergarten children. Data on marital status and psychological counseling was anonymously provided by the kindergarten teachers and children's level of honesty was assessed by a flip-coin task which rewarded a self-reported favorable outcome. The experiment gave rise to two major results: first, children of divorced parents are less honest than children of non-divorced parents and second, psychological counseling helps improve honesty among children of divorced parents but fails to do so among children of non-divorced parents. No gender effect was found.
AB - The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents’ marital status (divorced or non-divorced) and psychological counseling (administered or not) on the honesty level of kindergarten children. Data on marital status and psychological counseling was anonymously provided by the kindergarten teachers and children's level of honesty was assessed by a flip-coin task which rewarded a self-reported favorable outcome. The experiment gave rise to two major results: first, children of divorced parents are less honest than children of non-divorced parents and second, psychological counseling helps improve honesty among children of divorced parents but fails to do so among children of non-divorced parents. No gender effect was found.
KW - Dishonest behavior
KW - Flip coin task
KW - Kindergarten children
KW - Psychological counseling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072714776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.09.012
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AN - SCOPUS:85072714776
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 167
SP - 33
EP - 38
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -