The truth about tattoos

Bradley Ruffle and Anne E. Wilson

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 172, issue C, 143-147

Abstract: Despite their ubiquity, tattoos continue to be associated with dishonesty. Notwithstanding, we find few differences in the reporting behavior of tattooed and non-tattooed individuals in either a low-stakes or a high-stakes honesty-detection task.

Keywords: Experimental economics; Tattoo; Honesty; Strategic cheating; Incomplete cheating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.08.024

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