TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
KW  - Lying; Deception; Morality; Ethics; Experiments
A1  - Vanberg, Christoph
Y1  - 2015/02//
ID  - heidok18148
T3  - Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
TI  - Who never tells a lie? 
EP  - 26
AV  - public
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18148/
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  -