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Invisible barriers cut down on cheating – Medical Xpress
You know those cardboard partitions that sometimes separate kids taking a test? The ones meant to prevent cheating? According to a new study by an international team of researchers, a see-through partition does the trick, too—as does a pretend barrier that do…
You know those cardboard partitions that sometimes separate kids taking a test? The ones meant to prevent cheating? According to a new study by an international team of researchers, a see-through partition does the trick, tooas does a pretend barrier that doesn’t exist at all.
Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that simple environmental cues can nudge children to do the right thing.
In four experiments with 350 children in China, aged 5 to…
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