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 …

Honesty toward strangers can be considered an important norm of any given society.
However, despite burgeoning interest in honesty among experimenters, the heterogeneous …

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 …

A key question in the literature on motivated reasoning and self-deception is how motivated
beliefs are sustained in the presence of feedback. In this paper, we explore dynamic …

This paper studies lying. An agent randomly picks a number from a known distribution. She
can then report any number and receive a monetary payoff based only on her report. The …

Deception is common in nature and humans are no exception. Modern societies have
created institutions to control cheating, but many situations remain where only intrinsic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …