This target article is concerned with the implications of the surprisingly different experimental
practices in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and …

Trust is a key aspect of various social interactions. Correspondingly, trust has been heavily
studied across different scientific disciplines. However, an integration of the diverse research …

We study how cheating behavior is affected by incentives. After replicating the finding in the
cheating game literature that lying does not increase with incentives, we show that this …

Expectations are a critical factor in determining actions in a great variety of economic
interactions. Hence, being able to measure beliefs is important in many economic …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of
“social preferences.” We design a range of simple experimental games that test these …

We present a novel experimental design to measure honesty and lying. Participants receive
a die which they roll privately. Since their payoff depends on the reported roll of the die, the …

Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field
rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using …

Experimenter demand effects refer to changes in behavior by experimental subjects due to
cues about what constitutes appropriate behavior. We argue that they can either be social or …

Deception is part of many economic interactions. Business people, politicians, diplomats,
lawyers, and students in the experimental laboratory who make use of private information do …