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Deception and Self-Deception
Schwardman, Peter; van der Weele, Joël - 2016
We experimentally investigate the determinants of overconfidence and test the hypothesis, advanced by Robert Trivers, that overconfidence serves to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed about the...
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Taking Punishment into Your Own Hands: An Experiment
Duersch, Peter; Müller, Julia - 2013
In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from the demand to conduct punishment …
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Everybody's doing it: On the Emergence and Persistence of Bad Social Norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Gneezy, Uri - 2016
Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...
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Equilibrium Selection in Cheap Talk Games: ACDC rocks when Other Criteria remain silent
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2011
the size of credible deviations. In our experiment, we find support for the relevance of credible deviations. In addition …
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An Experimental Study of Credible Deviations and ACDC
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2011
organize data well in previous experiments meant to test other concepts. This experiment provides the first systematic test of …
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Habitual Communication
Ioannidis, Konstantinos - 2022
communicate in a conflicting-interests environment, they may form habits of lying and mistrusting mes- sages. We provide …
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Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Cheap Talk Games
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2015
In the past, many refinements have been proposed to select equilibria in cheap talk games. Usually, these refinements were motivated by a discussion of how rational agents would reason in some particular cheap talk games. In this paper, we propose a new refinement and stability measure that is...
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An Experimental Study of Credible Deviations and ACDC
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian - 2012
We test the Average Credible Deviation Criterion (ACDC), a stability measure and refinement for cheap talk equilibria introduced in De Groot Ruiz, Offerman & Onderstal (2012a). ACDC has been shown to be predictive under general conditions and to organize data well in previous experiments meant...
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Individual oath-swearing and lying under peer pressure
Kingsuwankul, Sorravich - 2023
context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on …Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a … lying in a group context depends on the incentive structure. Oath reduces lying only when payoffs are independent. Evidence …
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Control without Deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000
Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking others' behaviour a controlled variable … experiment shows there is a workable alternative todeception. …
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