Communication between departments within a firm may include deception. Theory suggests that telling lies in these … theory. That is, most communication within an incentive group is truthful and deception often occurs between subjects from …

Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters … who can gain by deceiving those in the role of participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by … experimenter-participants to test whether deception aects behaviour of participant-participants in a dictator experiment and …

Like avoiding labor protection laws via foreign subcontractors, banning deception in economic experiments does not … exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters who, similar to properly incentivized subcontractors, can … gain by deceiving those in the role of proper participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by …

. Across four studies, we demonstrate that deception can increase trust. Specifically, prosocial lies increase the willingness … altruistic lies increase trust when deception is directly experienced and when it is merely observed. In Study 2, we demonstrate … that mutually beneficial lies also increase trust. In Study 3, we disentangle the effects of intentions and deception …

. I conduct two new experiments which are explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence …