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Humans often lie strategically. We study this problem in an ultimatum game involving informed proposers and uninformed responders, where the former can send an unverifiable statement about their endowment. If there are some intrinsically honest proposers, a simple message game shows that the...
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Humans can lie strategically in order to leverage on their negotiation power. For instance, governments can claim that a "scapegoat" third party is responsible for reforms that impose higher costs on citizens, in order to make the pill sweeter. This paper analyzes such communication strategy...
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436165
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy’s (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender’s lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942938
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078393
black lies (increasing the supervisor's earnings while decreasing the worker's payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)'s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …
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strength of the promise. Freely formulated messages lead to the fewest lies and the most efficient outcomes. …
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black lies (increasing the supervisor's earnings while decreasing the worker's payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)'s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225776
black lies (increasing the supervisor’s earnings while decreasing the worker’s payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)’s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318147