… to predicting higher self-reported prosocial behavior … behavioral tasks, Shariff and Norenzayan
(2011) found that self-reported belief in God was unrelated to students’ cheating behavior …

… punishing) God predicted an increase in cheating and stealing (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2011;
… always incongruent with actual behavior, it stipulates that religious beliefs and actual social …

… As recently as 2011, most Americans (54%) believed that one needs to believe in God to be
… examples of antisocial measures include crime, cheating, and violence (see later discussion …

… The first principle, ‘watched people are nice people,’ reflects … hypothesis predicts some
evidence in line with the Big Gods … a modified replication of that from Shariff and Norenzayan’s …

… endorse a vision of God as punitive and judging, whereas cheating rates increase with
the belief that God is benevolent and forgiving (Shariff and Norenzayan 2011; Debono et …

… ’ perceptions of God’s punitiveness were assessed on Shariff and Norenzayan’s (Citation2011)
View of God Scale (VOGS). … Mean gods make good people: Different views of God …

… gods boost prosocial behavior (Norenzayan & Shariff, 2008). … mentioned it was about
honesty, deception, or cheating, we … , 2011, 2013), we may see similar effects with local god …

… the non-signaling group to predict that every member of their … of cheating, but they can
detect likely cheating among groups … , whether or not they often became possessed by a deity. …

… Belief that God is harsh and punitive can reduce cheating, … in punishing gods, especially in
the afterlife (Shariff & Aknin, … ecologies (Gelfand et al., 2011). Our review draws upon cultural …

… it is time for people to repent and ask God for forgiveness. In the … , we examine cheating as
an anti-social behavior that is … ] attempted a direct replication of Shariff and Norenzayan [6], …