Cheating, trust and social norms: data from Germany, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and Japan

The data presented here contains information on cheating behaviour from experiments and general self-reported attitudes related to honesty-related social norms and trust, together with individual-level demographic variables. Our sample includes 493 university students in five countries, namely Germany, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, and Japan. The experiment was monetary incentivized based on performance on a matrix task. The participants also answered a survey questionnaire. Supplemental material contains the full text, codes and numerical values of survey and experiment instruments. The dataset is valuable to academic researchers in sociology, psychology and economics who are interested in honesty, norms and cultural differences.