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 …