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Face-to-face lying – An experimental study in Sweden and Japan

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Summary, in English

This paper investigates face-to-face lying and beliefs associated with it. In experiments in Sweden and Japan, subjects answer questions about personal characteristics, play a face-to-face sender–receiver game and participate in an elicitation of lie-detection beliefs. The previous finding of too much truth-telling (compared to the equilibrium prediction) also holds in the face-to-face setting. A new result is that although many people claim that they are good at lie-detection, few reveal belief in this ability when money is at stake. Correlations between the subjects’ characteristics and their behavior and performances in the game are also explored.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

310-321

Publication/Series

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volume

31

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Truth detection
  • Lying
  • Experiment
  • Lie-detection
  • Game theory

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1872-7719