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I don't know - how do you propose to test it? This is explicitly for measuring things where people have incentive to lie about their own behavior, so the only way I can see that this could be tested would be if we could then somehow independently derive the "true" answer and check it against our prediction based on the answer given. (To be useful, we'd also need to perform this test on the "control", where you ask people whatever question you have outright.)
"Anything is easy if you're not the one that has to do it." Claiming something is easy, without giving an actual means of doing it, is a cheap rhetorical trick, one of the "dark arts".
Give a number of test subjects a questionnaire with this question and a number of distraction questions. Then ask them to wait a while before the next stage of the experiment. While they are waiting give them an opportunity to steal something. Compare answers to behavior.