Reminding people to behave honestly or asking them to actively commit to honest behavior is an easily implementable intervention to reduce dishonesty. Earlier research has shown that such truth pledges affect lying behavior on a group level. In this study we are analyzing how a truth pledge...

This paper analyzes consumers' choices between, as well as behavior within three selling mechanisms which are frequently used in online marketplaces: posted prices, ascending auctions and Buy-It-Now auctions. In an exploratory experiment, where subjects choose between one mechanism and an...

Humans do not have infinite attention. Contrary to what traditional economic models would predict, only a subset of all available alternatives is considered for most decisions one makes in a lifetime. On top of this, only a limited number of attributes of these alternatives are taken into...