Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content

JH Zickfeld, KA Ścigała, CT Elbæk, J Michael… - Nature Human …, 2025 - nature.com
Dishonest behaviours such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex ante honesty
oaths—commitments to honesty before action—have been proposed as interventions to …

How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification

E Peer, N Mazar, Y Feldman, D Ariely - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Authorities and managers often rely on individuals and businesses' self-reports and employ
various forms of honesty declarations to ensure that those individuals and businesses do not …

I Solemnly Swear I'm Up To Good: A Megastudy Investigating the Effectiveness of Honesty Oaths on Curbing Dishonesty

J Zickfeld, K Scigala, C Elbaek, J Michael… - 2024 - shs.hal.science
Dishonest behaviors such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex-ante honesty
oaths—commitments to honesty before action—have been proposed as useful interventions …

Why do oaths work? Image concerns and credibility in promise kee**

S Kingsuwankul, C Tergiman… - Image Concerns and …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths
can affect behavior and credibility. Using a game with asymmetric information in a financial …

Social norms on unethical behaviors in the workplace: a lab experiment

A Guerra, E Turrini - International Review of Economics, 2025 - Springer
We analyze social norms on unethical behaviors in the workplace using a laboratory
experiment. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we considered two …

Oath, autonomy and lying in groups

S Kingsuwankul - Available at SSRN 4623412, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying in individual settings. Can it
reduce lying in groups, a context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results …