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Loss aversion and lying behavior : theory, estimation and empirical evidence

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016

increasing as the bad outcome becomes less likely, and hence the greater the loss that can be avoided by lying. We demonstrate … robust support for this role of loss aversion on lying by reanalyzing the results from the extant literature covering 74 … studies and 363 treatments, and from two new experiments that vary the outcome probabilities and examine lying for personal …

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Preferences for truth-telling

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele; Raymond, Collin - 2019 - Original version: September 2016, this version: March 2019

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material payoff. We combine data from 90 experimental studies in economics, psychology and sociology, and...

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A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018

empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method … estimates the full distribution of lying when agents privately observe the outcome of a random process (e.g., die roll) and can … bounds on the proportion of people lying) over the full distribution, allowing for a vast range of statistical inferences not …

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Big and small lies

Geraldes, Diogo; Heinicke, Franziska; Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2020

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Cheating and Loss Aversion: Do People Lie More to Avoid a Loss?

Grolleau, Gilles; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutan, Angela - CESifo - 2014

Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real effort task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance versus unmonitored performance) between-subjects design to examine whether cheating is reference-dependent. Our experimental...

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Commitment requests do not affect truth-telling in laboratory and online experiments

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2023

sanctions) and the type of experiment (online vs. offline). Irrespective of the declaration's content, commitment requests do …

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Size matters - when it comes to lies

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Utikal, Verena - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2011

’ truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different …

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Size Matters - When it Comes to Lies

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Utikal, Verena - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011

’ truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different …

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Cheating and loss aversion: do people lie more to avoid a loss?

Grolleau, Gilles; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutan, Angela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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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