Over the last decade, a massive body of research has been devoted to uncovering human
dishonesty. In the present paper, we review more than a hundred papers from this literature …

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

Recent research suggests that refraining from cheating in tempting situations requires self-
control, which indicates that serving self-interest is an automatic tendency. However …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of
public transportation to study attitudes toward dishonesty. We find that the diversity of …

We present evidence from a laboratory experiment showing that individuals who believe
they were treated unfairly in an interaction with another person are more likely to cheat in a …

We examine framing effects in nudging honesty, in the spirit of the growing norm-nudge
literature, by utilizing a high-powered and pre-registered study. Across four treatments …

This paper employs two variants of the “mind game” to show how a subtle variation in the
game's rules affects cheating. In both variants of the game, cheating is invisible because …

We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker
productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation …

This paper investigates reporting honesty when managers have monetary incentives to
overstate their performance. We argue that managers who report about their performance …

Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to
attenuate such acts is an underexplored area of research. This study takes an economic …