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 …

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

feedback given to the other agent. We show that a model with individual-specific lying costs and naive agents can account for …