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 …

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 …

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 …

Unethical behavior by “ordinary” people poses significant societal and personal challenges.
We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon …

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 …

In this paper we distinguish between two types of white lies: those that help others at the
expense of the person telling the lie, which we term altruistic white lie s, and those that help …

Employing a die-under-cup paradigm, we study the extent to which people lie when it is
transparently clear they cannot be caught. We asked participants to report the outcome of a …

Recent research suggests that refraining from cheating in tempting situations requires self-
control, which indicates that serving self-interest is an automatic tendency. However …

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 …