>During the game, children were left alone for 1 min and told not to cheat by peeking at the toy. Because of the highly tempting nature of the situation, most children were expected to cheat (e.g., Talwar & Lee, 2002). Before confronting them with the question of whether they had cheated, an experimenter read one of three moral stories or a control story to each child.
It would have been interesting if they had another group where they primed the children with the story before walking out of the room. Test to see how the various stories effect the decision to cheat, not just the honesty after the fact.