We develop a game-theoretical model of honesty and fairness to study cooperation in social dilemma games with … communication. It is based on two key intuitions. First, players suffer a utility cost if they break norms of honesty and fairness … concern for norms. We show that a model based on honesty norms alone cannot explain why pre-play communication fosters …

Honesty toward strangers can be considered an important norm of any given society. However, despite burgeoning interest … in honesty among experimenters, the heterogeneous nature of prior experimental designs obfuscates our understanding of … compare findings across a range of honesty experiments. Our findings across experimental designs suggest the robust presence …