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 …

We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is … order to obtain a higher payoff. A sender is positively biased if he thinks that he is higher in the deception distribution … information about the deception of his peers. The experimental data confirm this. We conclude that concern for relative standing …

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in … underreporting many principals seem to exhibit lying aversion which renders their feedback informative. Therefore, the agents respond …

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … 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 …

motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish …

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 …