Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106572 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8638
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for observers to communicate with the sender, and the option to reveal the sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to their observer do not lie less when their interests are misaligned with those of the observer.
Subjects: 
deception
lies
dishonesty
social image
experiment
JEL: 
C91
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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