Why are people so often overconfident? We conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that people become overconfident …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …

increasing as the bad outcome becomes less likely, and hence the greater the loss that can be avoided by lying. We demonstrate … robust support for this role of loss aversion on lying by reanalyzing the results from the extant literature covering 74 … studies and 363 treatments, and from two new experiments that vary the outcome probabilities and examine lying for personal …

Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an … experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition … process about the deception opportunity. We find that time pressure leads to more honesty compared to sufficient contemplation …