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 …

campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …

-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …

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. …

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …

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 …

This paper studies unethical behavior by groups and provides systematic evidence on how lying decisions are affected by … group size and group gender composition. We conduct an online experiment with 1,677 participants (477 groups) where group …