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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Preventing overfishing at Lake Victoria is a typical situation where policies have to rely on norm-based interventions …

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 …