for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a … say in who joins their group. We find that enough individuals are willing to report lies such that in fixed groups lying … generally shunned, even by groups where lying is absent. This facilitates the formation of dishonest groups where lying is …

underreporting many principals seem to exhibit lying aversion which renders their feedback informative. Therefore, the agents respond …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …

Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an … both parents and their young children as subjects. We find that the highest level of dishonesty occurs in settings where …

group decisions. We find more lying in male groups and mixed groups than in female groups. …

participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more …