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Less cheating? The effects of prefilled forms on compliance behavior

Fochmann, Martin; Müller, Nadja; Overesch, Michael - 2018

As a consequence of the digital transformation, individuals are often confronted with prefilled forms or prefilled data entry masks. In situations where cheating and lying are of concern, prefilling and defaults might reduce dishonest behavior. In a controlled experiment, we investigate how...

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A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution

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

Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy …

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The Adaptive Liar: An Interactionist Approach of Multiple Dishonesty Domains

Garcia-Rada, Ximena; Mann, Heather E.; Hornuf, Lars; … - 2018

that tendencies toward dishonesty vary according to life domain. We conducted a cross-cultural study with participants in … according to domain. We hypothesized that countries vary in dishonesty according to domain, and that individuals’ tendencies … toward dishonesty cluster by domain. Our survey asked participants to report the likelihood of engaging in dishonest …

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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Truth by consensus: A theoretical and empirical investigation

Camera, Gabriele; Garratt, Rod; Monnet, Cyril - 2024

Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...

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Truth by consensus: A theoretical and empirical investigation

Camera, Gabriele; Garratt, Rod; Monnet, Cyril - 2024

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Beyond punishment: Achieving sustainable compliance with the law. The case of coca-reducing policies in Colombia

Vasquez-Escallon, Juanita - 2015

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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations

Dai, Zhixin; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2016

attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the … fare-dodgers, except when context is introduced. Overall, we show that simple tests of dishonesty in the lab can predict …

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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Di Falco, Salvatore; Magdalou, Brice; Masclet, David; … - 2016

Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...

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Are groups really more dishonest than individuals?

Castillo, Geoffrey; Choo, Lawrence; Grimm, Veronika - 2020

finding by making explicit the third-party harmed by subjects' dishonesty: a local charity. With this explicit third-party, we …A common finding of the literature on dishonesty is that groups are more dishonest than individuals. We revisit this … of dishonesty. …

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