Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Although dishonesty is often a social phenomenon, it is primarily studied in individual
settings. However, people frequently collaborate and engage in mutual dishonest acts. We …

This paper studies lying. An agent randomly picks a number from a known distribution. She
can then report any number and receive a monetary payoff based only on her report. The …

We study how cheating behavior is affected by incentives. After replicating the finding in the
cheating game literature that lying does not increase with incentives, we show that this …

In this paper we distinguish between two types of white lies: those that help others at the
expense of the person telling the lie, which we term altruistic white lie s, and those that help …

Building on previous research in economics and psychology, we propose that the costliness
of initial prosocial behavior positively influences whether that behavior leads to consistent …

Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in
organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of
public transportation to study attitudes toward dishonesty. We find that the diversity of …

We introduce a new method for measuring the decision to lie in experiments. In the game,
the decision to lie increases own payment independent of the counterpart's decision, but …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …