motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish …

. Being aware of previous findings showing that ex ante transparency about conflicts of interest leads to even more deception … reduces deception when it is announced as a threat, which creates awareness of the presence of a whistleblower. An intrinsic … motivation seems to play a certain role that goes beyond lying and guilt aversion: embarrassment. Furthermore, we examine if the …

deception. This study proposes that providing ex post transparency could play an important role in reducing deception. Different … deception but also that a 50% chance of subsequent disclosure significantly reduces deception in the case in which the sender …

laboratory experiment we test whether lying aversion can explain this behavior by comparing honest and fake apologies. First, we …

that it is the promise component in messages about the contribution that leads to less free-riding and less lying. …

question by eliciting individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid detection in an economic experiment involving a coin …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …

risk. Such self-deception can be achieved even if the future self is aware of the attempted distortion. We relate our …

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are … though, as in previous literature, some participants appear to feature a cost of lying. We argue our findings could be …

Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an … experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition … process about the deception opportunity. We find that time pressure leads to more honesty compared to sufficient contemplation …