Commitment requests do not affect truth-telling in laboratory and online experiments
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- Tobias Cagala & Ulrich Glogowsky & Johannes Rincke & Simeon Schudy, 2023. "Commitment Requests Do Not Affect Truth-Telling in Laboratory and Online Experiments," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 466, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
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Keywords
Cheating; Lying; Truth-telling; Compliance; Commitment; No-cheating rule; No-cheating declaration; Commitment request;All these keywords.
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- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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