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 …

Dishonesty is ubiquitous and imposes substantial financial and social burdens on society.
Intuitively, dishonesty results from a failure of willpower to control selfish behavior. However …

We present evidence of cheating that took place in online examinations during COVID-19
lockdowns and propose two solutions with and without a camera for the cheating problem …

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 …

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 …

We theoretically show that loss-averse agents are more likely to lie to avoid receiving a low
payoff after a random draw the lower the ex-ante probability of this bad outcome. The ex …

We use the die-paradigm to study gender differences in cheating behavior. We find that i)
both males and females do not cheat in the absence of financial incentives, ii) both males …

We use the coin-flip paradigm and a short survey about moral attitudes under three
conditions to answer three questions:(i) Do people cheat more when financial incentives are …

Strategic sellers on some online selling platforms have recently been using a conditional-
rebate strategy to manipulate product reviews under which only purchasing consumers who …

We investigate how loss aversion and entitlement influence lying. We conduct an online
experiment with a cheating task in which participants draw and report a number. Participants …