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    Who never tells a lie? [Data set and Programs] - Dataset - B2FIND

    • b2find.dkrz.de
    Updated May 6, 2023
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    (2023). Who never tells a lie? [Data set and Programs] - Dataset - B2FIND [Dataset]. https://b2find.dkrz.de/dataset/73200fed-9ef6-5e9a-a21c-5b13486151d0
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    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 findings for moral behavior and rule following more generally.

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(2023). Who never tells a lie? [Data set and Programs] - Dataset - B2FIND [Dataset]. https://b2find.dkrz.de/dataset/73200fed-9ef6-5e9a-a21c-5b13486151d0

Who never tells a lie? [Data set and Programs] - Dataset - B2FIND

Explore at:
Dataset updated
May 6, 2023
Description

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 findings for moral behavior and rule following more generally.

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