The extensive economics literature on lying has focused nearly exclusively on studying experimental settings where individuals can lie for financial rewards. However, in everyday interactions, lying to enhance one’s social- and self-image is ubiquitous and perhaps even more common than lying...

The extensive theoretical and experimental economics literature on lying has focused nearly exclusively on lying for monetary rewards. However, in everyday interactions, lying to enhance one’s image is ubiquitous and perhaps even more common than lying to gain a financial advantage. In this...

The extensive theoretical and experimental economics literature on lying has focused nearly exclusively on lying for material rewards. However, in everyday interactions, lying to enhance one’s image is ubiquitous and perhaps even more common than lying to gain a financial advantage. In this...

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo formodeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...

This paper studies individual truth-telling behavior in the presence of multiple lying opportunities with heterogeneous stake sizes. The results show that individuals lie downwards (i.e. forgo money due to their lie) in low-stakes situations in order to signal honesty, and thereby mitigate the...

This paper tests whether staying ignorant about the negative consequences of one's own actions affects agents' performance in a real effort experiment. We conducted treatments in which subjects' effort either increased only one's own payoff or also increased the donation to a bad charity....