Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities

Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm
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Veronika Grimm: FAU - Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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Abstract: A common finding of the literature on dishonesty is that groups are more dishonest than individuals. We revisit this finding by replacing the experimenter, implicitly hurt by subjects' dishonesty, with an explicit third-party: a local charity. With the charity we do not find groups to be more dishonest than individuals. Instead, groups can even help moderate the extent of the dishonesty.

Keywords: Dishonesty; Group decisions; Communication; Social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06
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Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 198, pp.598-611. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2022.04.014⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.04.014

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