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also pay less than the price or not pay at all. We conduct an experiment to study honesty in this market. The results show … that appealing to honesty increases payments, whereas reminding the customers of the legal norm has no effect. Furthermore …, appealing to honesty does not affect the behavior of the dishonest. These findings suggest that some people have internalized an …
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Social norms can act as safeguards against corporate misconduct, but can also foster undesirable behavior. To study differences in individual resistance to social norms, we conduct a laboratory experiment on misrepresentation of earnings. There are systematic differences among individuals'...
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We conducted a laboratory experiment to examine how honesty depends on social distance. Participants cast dice and … social distance depends on personal preferences about inequity and honesty as a moral value. We observed selfish "black lies … reduction of social distance can promote honesty in social interactions. …
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reporting—that victims of lies pay lies forward—and show that they are more likely when people expect honesty. These results are …
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