I experimentally investigate the hypothesis that many people avoid lying even in a situation where doing so would result in a Pareto improvement. Replicating (Erat and Gneezy, Management Science 58, 723-733, 2012), I find that a significant fraction of subjects tell the truth in a sender-receiver game where both subjects earn a higher payoff when the partner makes an incorrect guess regarding the roll of a die. However, a non-incentivized questionnaire indicates that the vast majority of these subjects expected their partner not to follow their message. I conduct two new experiments explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence for the existence of such a motivation. I discuss the implications of the findi...
We experimentally study the extent to which individuals are honest when lying can result in a gain o...
Lies can have profoundly negative consequences for individuals, groups and even for societies. Under...
Do people cater their lies to their own beliefs or others' beliefs? One dominant individual-based ac...
Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where...
We investigate lying behavior when lying is undetectable and payoffs are split with charity. 524 par...
We run an experimental study using sender-receiver games to evaluate how senders' willingness to lie...
We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game and a sequential game of...
Field experiments have shown that observing other people littering, stealing or lying can trigger ow...
Field experiments have shown that observing other people littering, stealing or lying can trigger ow...
A recent experimental literature shows that truth-telling is not always motivated by pecuniary moti...
In this paper we present a new design which allows us to draw inferences on the distribution of lyin...
In this paper, I examine pure lie aversion in a controlled experiment. When both the liar and the pe...
The paper reports from an experiment studying how the aversion to lying is affected by non-economic ...
We examine subjects ’ behavior in sender-receiver games where there are gains from trade and alignme...
We introduce a new method for measuring the decision to lie in experiments. In the game, the decisio...
We experimentally study the extent to which individuals are honest when lying can result in a gain o...
Lies can have profoundly negative consequences for individuals, groups and even for societies. Under...
Do people cater their lies to their own beliefs or others' beliefs? One dominant individual-based ac...
Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where...
We investigate lying behavior when lying is undetectable and payoffs are split with charity. 524 par...
We run an experimental study using sender-receiver games to evaluate how senders' willingness to lie...
We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game and a sequential game of...
Field experiments have shown that observing other people littering, stealing or lying can trigger ow...
Field experiments have shown that observing other people littering, stealing or lying can trigger ow...
A recent experimental literature shows that truth-telling is not always motivated by pecuniary moti...
In this paper we present a new design which allows us to draw inferences on the distribution of lyin...
In this paper, I examine pure lie aversion in a controlled experiment. When both the liar and the pe...
The paper reports from an experiment studying how the aversion to lying is affected by non-economic ...
We examine subjects ’ behavior in sender-receiver games where there are gains from trade and alignme...
We introduce a new method for measuring the decision to lie in experiments. In the game, the decisio...
We experimentally study the extent to which individuals are honest when lying can result in a gain o...
Lies can have profoundly negative consequences for individuals, groups and even for societies. Under...
Do people cater their lies to their own beliefs or others' beliefs? One dominant individual-based ac...