Despite being a pivotal aspect of human cooperation, only a few studies within the field of collaborative dishonesty have included communication between participants, and none have yet experimentally compared this to non-communicative contexts. As a result, the impact of communication on unethical collaborations remains unclear. To address this gap, we conducted two well-powered studies ( = 1187), closely replicating and extending seminal research by Weisel and Shalvi (2015), introducing communication as a manipulated variable within a dyadic cheating task. Across both studies, we found evidence that communication increases the magnitude of cheating—even when coordination on the task is not allowed. Importantly, the effect of communication was linked to a stronger experienced collaboration among the communicating dyads, highlighting that communication is not only key to everyday ethically sound collaborations, but also to corrupt collaborations.

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沟通加剧协作腐败

尽管协作欺诈是人类合作的一个关键方面，但只有少数研究涉及参与者之间的沟通，而且还没有人通过实验将其与非沟通环境进行比较。因此，沟通对不道德合作的影响仍不清楚。为了解决这一差距，我们进行了两项强有力的研究 (= 1187)，密切复制和扩展了 Weisel 和 Shalvi (2015) 的开创性研究，将沟通作为二元作弊任务中的操纵变量引入。在这两项研究中，我们发现证据表明，即使不允许在任务上进行协调，沟通也会增加作弊的程度。重要的是，沟通的效果与沟通双方之间更强大、经验丰富的合作有关，这凸显出沟通不仅是日常合乎道德的合作的关键，而且也是腐败合作的关键。