#9541. Competition and cheating: Investigating the role of moral awareness, moral identity, and moral elevation

September 2026publication date
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Journal’s subject area:
Sociology and Political Science;
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management;
Psychology (all);
Applied Psychology;
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Abstract:
Competition can lead individuals to cheat; yet our knowledge of why competition affects cheating and how to mitigate these effects is limited. To address this limitation, we first contrast two theories: arousal theories of competition (via desire to win) and social cognitive theory (via impaired moral awareness). Our results were consistent with social cognitive theory in that competition impairs moral awareness and that this impairment explains why people cheat.
Keywords:
cheating; competition; moral awareness; moral elevation; moral identity

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