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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
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 …
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Eliciting private information with noise : the case of randomized response
Blume, Andreas; Lai, Ernest K.; Lim, Wooyoung - 2013
prediction, randomization significantly reduces the elicited information in our experiment. …
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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …
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Lies in disguise : a theoretical analysis of cheating
Dufwenberg, Martin <Jr>; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2016
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 in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...
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Deception and self-deception
Schwardman, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
We experimentally investigate the determinants of overconfidence and test the hypothesis, advanced by Robert Trivers, that overconfidence serves to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed about the...
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362462
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Control without deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000
Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable … experiment shows there is a workable alternative todeception. …
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Affirmative action or just discrimination? : a study on the endogenous emergence of quotas
Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016 - This version: 16 February 2016
Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515418
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518078