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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 581
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Lying
Deception
Morality
Ethics
Experiments
Verhalten
Ethik
Multikriterielle Entscheidungsanalyse
Verhaltensökonomik
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Vanberg, Christoph
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Heidelberg
- (when)
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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
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Vanberg, Christoph
- University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2015
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