Recent research in the US showed that surveillance, or just the threat of it, causes people to act more honestly.
The researchers found that when they put a picture of a pair of eyes on the wall next to the communal coffee-pot money box - the money "donated" into the box trebled as compared to the "no-eyes" situtation. I wonder if the eyes are really the cause of the enhanced takings? Probably.
There's a pretty common thread in ethics training that goes something like this: your character is determined by what you do when no one is watching.
Do you think so?
Thoughts of the golfer cheating in the woods/rough spring to mind.
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