experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …

We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals …' first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust … believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff …