Dishonesty behaviors under time pressure

Manami Tsuruta () and Keigo Inukai
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Manami Tsuruta: Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Keigo Inukai: Department of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University

No 19-05, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Many people sometimes engage in dishonest behavior to get own material payoff. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate whether intuitive decisions were to lieor to be honest. Using a task that the experimenter does not know whether the subject is lying or not, and the analysis was performed using only the subjects who were aware that it was possible to lie in the experiment. We found that there was no difference in the degree of lie between time limit condition and no time limit condition. There are two possible interpretations of the result. One is that the decision system of intuition (system 1) and consideration (system 2) does not apply to lie decision-making. In other words, whether thinking about it carefully or making decisions in a hurry doesn ft change the degree of lie. Another possibility is that the time limit in the experimentwas too long. It takes only a very short time for the subject to press the numbers on the keyboard after the choices are displayed, and even under unlimited time, the average is about 1.3 seconds. Therefore, even if the time limit is 5 seconds, the subject may not have been given a sufficient load. In other words, it maybe considered that intuitive (system 1) decision-making was not performed. In a future research, we want to conduct an experiment with a shorter time limit and investigate whether the experimental result changes.

Keywords: Time pressure; Dishonesty; Decision making; Laboratory experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2019-04
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