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Researchers studying the relationship between honesty, age, and self-control conducted an experiment on 160 children between the ages of 5 and 15. Participants reported their age, sex, and whether they were an only child or not. The researchers asked each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (heads or tails) on a paper sheet, and said they would only reward children who report heads. The study's findings can be summarized as follows: "Half the students were explicitly told not to cheat, and the others were not given any explicit instructions. In the no instruction group, the probability of cheating was found to be uniform across groups based on the child's characteristics. In the group that was explicitly told not to cheat, girls were less likely to cheat, and while the rate of cheating didn't vary by age for boys, it decreased with age for girls.

          Researchers studying the relationship between honesty, age, and self-control conducted an experiment on 160 children between the ages of 5 and 15. Participants reported their age, sex, and whether they were an only child or not. The researchers asked each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (heads or tails) on a paper sheet, and said they would only reward children who report heads. The study's findings can be summarized as follows: "Half the students were explicitly told not to cheat, and the others were not given any explicit instructions. In the no instruction group, the probability of cheating was found to be uniform across groups based on the child's characteristics. In the group that was explicitly told not to cheat, girls were less likely to cheat, and while the rate of cheating didn't vary by age for boys, it decreased with age for girls.

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