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 …

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 …

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 …

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 run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

Trust in others' honesty is a key component of the long-term performance of firms, industries,
and even whole countries 1, 2, 3, 4. However, in recent years, numerous scandals involving …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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