title: Who never tells a lie? 
creator: Vanberg, Christoph
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would lead to a Pareto improvement. They conclude that many people exhibit such a "pure lie aversion." I argue that the experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion, and that the evidence does not support the authors' conclusion. I conduct two new experiments which are explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence for the existence of such a motivation. I discuss the implications of the findings for moral behavior and rule following more generally.
date: 2015-02
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18148/1/Vanberg_2015_dp581.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00018148
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-181483
identifier:   Vanberg, Christoph  (2015) Who never tells a lie?  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18148/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng