Although dishonesty is often a social phenomenon, it is primarily studied in individual
settings. However, people frequently collaborate and engage in mutual dishonest acts. We …

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

A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is
to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that …

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 …

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 …

Drawing on self-congruity theory, we construct and examine a theoretical model that
explores the effect of destination attachment on revisiting intention via ideal and actual self …

Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real-effort matrix
task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance …

The incentives provided to participants are an important aspect in experimental economics.
We discuss several aspects of experimental incentives: how they help to recruit subjects; …

Field experimentation, although rare, is the sterling-gold standard of organizational research
methods. It yields the best internally valid and generalizable findings compared to more …

This paper experimentally analyzes the role of individual social value orientation (SVO) on
honest behavior. We focus on a situation where dishonest behavior pays off at somebody …