I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups
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- Martin G. Kocher & Simeon Schudy & Lisa Spantig, 2018. "I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 64(9), pages 3995-4008, September.
- Kocher, Martin G. & Schudy, Simeon & Spantig, Lisa, 2018. "I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental Evidence on a Dishonesty Shift in Groups," Munich Reprints in Economics 62823, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Kocher, Martin G. & Schudy, Simeon & Spantig, Lisa, 2016. "I lie? We lie! Why? Experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups," Discussion Papers in Economics 28966, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
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dishonesty; lying; group decisions; communication; norms; experiment;All these keywords.
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- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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