Face-to-face lying - An experimental study in Sweden and Japan

Hakan Holm and Toshiji Kawagoe

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, vol. 31, issue 3, 310-321

Abstract: This paper investigates face-to-face lying and beliefs associated with it. In experiments in Sweden and Japan, subjects answer questions about personal characteristics, play a face-to-face sender-receiver game and participate in an elicitation of lie-detection beliefs. The previous finding of too much truth-telling (compared to the equilibrium prediction) also holds in the face-to-face setting. A new result is that although many people claim that they are good at lie-detection, few reveal belief in this ability when money is at stake. Correlations between the subjects' characteristics and their behavior and performances in the game are also explored.

Keywords: Lying; Game; theory; Truth; detection; Lie-detection; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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