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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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

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