Are groups really more dishonest than individuals?

Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo and Veronika Grimm

No 01/2020, FAU Discussion Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics

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

Keywords: dishonesty; group decisions; communication; social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020, Revised 2020
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