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. …

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 …

Recent literature has shown that lying behavior in the laboratory can well be explained by a combination of lying costs … and reputation concerns. We extend the literature on lying behavior to strategic interactions. As reciprocal behavior is …'s information on the first movers lying behavior. This allows us to derive predictions on the second mover's behavior which we test …

We investigate experimentally whether individuals or groups are more lied to, and how lying depends on the group size … borne individually. The size of the group does not affect lying behavior. …

Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a … context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on … lying in a group context depends on the incentive structure. Oath reduces lying only when payoffs are independent. Evidence …

if two members of the group share an unequal payment for lying. The less-paid party in the group plays a dominant role in …

) Expectations have a significant effect on the probability of punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. This last …