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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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We use a ten-round online mind game to determine whether the effect of honesty nudges depends on timing and content. Reminding individuals about the right thing to do increases honesty. Including information that it is possible to assess an individual's dishonesty strengthens the effect of the...
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We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi …-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility …
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social norms on lying and test whether norm sensitivity changes with age. Children think about a number between 1 and 6 in … making their report, we expose children to different empirical and normative information prescribing lying or honesty. We … show that a normative intervention suggesting other children approve of honesty effectively reduces lying. We find limited …
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the context of lying, we systematically vary both the nature of elicited beliefs (descriptive about what others do, or … normative about what others approve of) and whether subjects are aware of the forthcoming lying opportunity at the belief …
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payoff by cheating, i.e., lying about the outcome of the coin toss. We found that subjects were more likely to cheat in …
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