Who never tells a lie?

被引:9
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作者
Vanberg, Christoph [1 ]
机构
[1] Heidelberg Univ, Dept Econ, Bergheimer Str 58, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
关键词
Lying; Deception; Morality; Ethics; Experiments; DECEPTION;
D O I
10.1007/s10683-016-9491-2
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
I experimentally investigate the hypothesis that many people avoid lying even in a situation where doing so would result in a Pareto improvement. Replicating (Erat and Gneezy, Management Science 58, 723-733, 2012), I find that a significant fraction of subjects tell the truth in a sender-receiver game where both subjects earn a higher payoff when the partner makes an incorrect guess regarding the roll of a die. However, a non-incentivized questionnaire indicates that the vast majority of these subjects expected their partner not to follow their message. I conduct two new experiments explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence for the existence of such a motivation. I discuss the implications of the findings for moral behavior and rule following more generally.
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页码:448 / 459
页数:12
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