size and can either misrepresent this information through untruthful statements (explicit deception) or through information …-revealing actions (implicit deception). Our study is the first such direct comparison between two ways in which people can deceive. We … find that requiring informed parties to make an explicit statement yields greater deception than when information 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 …

Lying and deceiving is present not only in adults but also among children and teenagers and represents an economically …-negligible fraction of subjects in both age cohorts exhibits lying-aversion and that the propensity to lie decreases significantly with …

subject's own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that, when acting as senders, the majority of …

campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …

their suggested actions more frequently with request than intention. We surmise lying aversion plays a prominent role in …