Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an … intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … subject must be aware of the misreporting opportunity. This paper provides experimental evidence on the role of the time …

) easiness to grasp the opportunity to lie, and 2) the amount of time available to decide. In an incentivized online experiment … of a dice-roll with and without time pressure. We find evidence that ego depletion increases the fraction of truth …-tellers under time pressure. Our findings suggest that when discovering the opportunities to lie is not trivial and people are …