’ first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust … believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff … equivalent game of matching pennies. Our results therefore indicate an impact of second-order beliefs as derived in models of …

Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the … important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature relies to a large extent on experiments that do …-subject anonymity may create selsh incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments …