examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over several interaction rounds. Our findings reveal that cheating is … prevalent among cocoa middlemen, with 78% of players cheating at least once during the game. However, we found heterogeneous … cheating patterns: 59% of cocoa middlemen consistently cheated when faced with a losing outcome, even when the risk of …

social norms when devising pro-saving policy interventions. …

We investigate experimentally whether individuals or groups are more lied to, and how lying depends on the group size … and the monetary loss inflicted by the lie. We employ an observed cheating game, where an individual's misreport of a … borne individually. The size of the group does not affect lying behavior. …

This paper focuses on belief distortion in the context of lying decisions. We employ a twostage variant of the "dice … of beliefs. When subjects are aware of the dice task ahead, they convince themselves that lying behavior is widespread in … order to justify their lying. In contrast with beliefs about majority behavior, we find that beliefs about the extent to …

We investigate the influence of self and social image concerns as potential sources of lying costs. In a standard die …. This suggests that self-image concerns may be less important than previously hypothesized in the literature on lying costs …

predictions, we find that neither delaying the gains from cheating, nor increasing temporal engagement with one's own unethical … behavior reduces the likelihood of cheating. Furthermore, allowing for a delay between the time when private information is … obtained and when it is reported does not affect cheating in our experiment. …

Using a standard cheating game, we investigate whether the request to sign a no-cheating declaration affects truth …-telling. Our design varies the content of a no-cheating declaration (reference to ethical behavior vs. reference to possible …

individual incentive schemes, highly competitive environments are associated with higher degrees of lying and cheating. However … incentives for misconduct and decompose the behavioral impacts. Our results provide clean evidence of a significant lying …-enhancing desire-to-win-effect and an insignificant lying-reducing negative externality effect. …