Arbeitspapier
Who never tells a lie?
Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would lead to a Pareto improvement. They conclude that many people exhibit such a "pure lie aversion." I argue that the experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion, and that the evidence does not support the authors' conclusion. I conduct two new experiments which are 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 581
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Lying
Deception
Morality
Ethics
Experiments
Verhalten
Ethik
Multikriterielle Entscheidungsanalyse
Verhaltensökonomik
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Vanberg, Christoph
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
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Heidelberg
- (wann)
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.11588/heidok.00018148
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-181483
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Vanberg, Christoph
- University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2015
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