motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish …

investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion … when the evader's picture is publicly displayed. We also find that the risk of a public exposure of deception deters …

This paper proposes an equilibrium approach to deception where deception is defined to be the process by which actions … theories compatible with the available information. We illustrate the phenomenon of deception and how reputation concerns may … deception affects standard economic insights through a number of stylized applications including a monitoring game and two …

experiment, 65% of the subjects in the tax-setter role overstate the tax levied by the third party in order to manipulate …

responders. In the second part of the paper, we report on an experiment testing this game. On average, 88.5% of the proposers …

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors …

experiment, and also sets out to identify the general distribution pattern to be expected for unmanaged earnings. Normal …