Observability and lying
Tilman Fries,
Uri Gneezy,
Agne Kajackaite and
Daniel Parra Carreño ()
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 189, issue C, 132-149
Abstract:
Experimental participants in a cheating game draw a random number and then report any number they wish, receiving a monetary payoff based only on the report. We study how these reports depend on the level of observability of both the random draw and the report by the experimenter. Our results show that whereas increasing the observability of the random draw decreases cheating, increasing the anonymity of the reports does not affect average reports.
Keywords: Lying; Cheating; Observability; Social image; Double blind; Laboratory experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D82 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.06.038
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