We investigate how the inclination to cheat changes when agents report the result of multiple realizations of a (private information) stochastic event rather than a single outcome. Multiple realizations render extreme outcomes unlikely, facilitating the identification of opportunistic behaviors and exposing to reputation concerns the individuals who report them. Consequently, multiple realizations lead to a significant reduction of cheating by large amounts. Simultaneously multiple realizations also diminish the intrinsic cost of lying, thereby inducing a widespread inclination to adjust upward the observed outcome in a plausible manner. The overall effect is only a marginal decrease in the degree of cheating.

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观察多个私人信息结果对作弊倾向的影响

我们研究了当代理人报告（私人信息）随机事件的多个实现结果而不是单个结果时，作弊倾向如何变化。多重认识使得极端结果不太可能出现，从而有助于识别机会主义行为，并使报告这些行为的个人面临声誉问题。因此，多重认识可以大幅减少作弊行为。同时，多重认识也降低了说谎的内在成本，从而引发了以合理的方式向上调整观察到的结果的广泛倾向。总体效果只是作弊程度略有下降。