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Asymmetric default bias in dishonesty – how defaults work but only when in one's favor
Fosgaard, Toke R. - 2013
Based on a dice rolling task where participants can cheat on the outcome, this paper asks if default answers change dishonesty? The paper finds that various default answers have asymmetric effects. Compared to not having a default answer at all, providing a low default answer, or adding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101000
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Asymmetric default bias in dishonesty – how defaults work but only when in one’s favor
Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt - Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi, … - 2013
Based on a dice rolling task where participants can cheat on the outcome, this paper asks if default answers change dishonesty? The paper finds that various default answers have asymmetric effects. Compared to not having a default answer at all, providing a low default answer, or adding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635826
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Separating Will from Grace: An Experiment on Conformity and Awareness in Cheating
Fosgaard, Toke; Hansen, Lars Gaarn; Piovesan, Marco - Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi, … - 2012
In this paper we investigate if people cheat more when they observe their peers cheating because they conform or … because they become aware that cheating is something to actively consider. In our experiment subjects toss a coin in private … cheating is an option; ii) suggest that their peers were honest (or dishonest). We find that increasing awareness of cheating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599255