Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …