Gibson, Rajna; Tanner, Carmen; Wagner, Alexander F. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 532-48
We conduct an experiment assessing the extent to which people trade off the economic costs of truthfulness against the intrinsic costs of lying. The results allow us to reject a type-based model. People's preferences for truthfulness do not identify them as only either "economic types" (who care...