Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Research yields ample evidence that individual's behavior often reflects an apparent
concern for moral considerations. A natural way to interpret evidence of such motives using …

We introduce a new method for measuring the decision to lie in experiments. In the game,
the decision to lie increases own payment independent of the counterpart's decision, but …

Highlights•Behavioral economists search for alternatives to the economics-of-crime
approach.•Dialog among economists/psychologists is most active regarding moral …

The paper reports from an experiment studying how the aversion to lying is affected by non-
economic dimensions of the choice situation. Specifically, we study whether people are …

In this paper we investigate if people cheat more when they observe their peers cheating
because they conform or because they become aware that cheating is something to actively …

What are the individual demographic characteristics that correlate with unethical behavior?
To answer this question we randomly interviewed 541 passengers who used the bus in …

We use different incentive schemes to study truth-telling in a die-roll task when people are
asked to reveal the number rolled privately. We find no significant evidence of cheating …

We study the impact of scarcity on cheating and in-group favoritism using a two-period lab-in-
the-field experiment with low-income coffee farmers in a small, isolated village in …

Lying and deceiving is present not only in adults but also among children and teenagers
and represents an economically and psychological relevant behavioral trait. It is therefore …