More on gender differences in lying

I Might Be a Liar, but Not a Thief: An Experimental Distinction between the Moral Costs of Lying and Stealing

“…As we did not find evidence for a statistically significant gender difference for the 282 amount of lying, we contradict findings of other researchers (Fosgaard, Hansen, & Piovesan, 283 2013;Grosch & Rau, 2017;Houser et al, 2012;Kajackaite & Gneezy, 2017). Nevertheless, 284 the gender difference in honesty is a matter of discussion, as there are also studies that reject-285 ed the hypothesis of gender differences (Childs, 2012;Gylfason et al, 2013;Kajackaite 286 & Gneezy, 2017). Our results support the latter studies; however, the tendency of the gender 287 difference we observed was in line with predictions.…”

“…239 Additionally, we investigated individual characteristics which explain the significant differ-240 ence in immoral behavior we observed. An important characteristic of agents regarding their 241 moral behavior is gender (Gylfason et al, 2013). The proportion of women and men showing 242 immoral behavior in both treatments is shown in Table 4.…”

Let’s be honest: A review of experimental evidence of honesty and truth-telling

“…Haan & Kooreman, 2002;Mazar et al, 2008;Steinberg et al (1977)), derogating the predictions of the economics of crime paradigm (Becker, 1968). Subjects appear willing to forfeit pecuniary rewards even in conditions of total anonymity, where there is zero risk of Lost letters/items 0 (Franzen and Pointner, 2013) Self-reported outcomes + (Conrads et al, 2013(Conrads et al, , 2014Houser et al, 2012;Ward & Beck, 1990) À (Howells, 1938) 0 (Abeler et al, 2014;Diener and Wallbom, 1976;Lewis et al, 2012;Piazza et al, 2011) Undeserved money + (Azar et al, 2013Bersoff, 1999) 0 (Bickman, 1971;Rosenbaum et al, 2012;Yuchtman-Yaar and Rahav, 1986) Sender-receiver games + (Dreber & Johanneson, 2008;Gibson et al, 2013) 0 (Cappelen et al, 2013Childs, 2012;Erat and Gneezy, 2012;Gylfason et al, 2013;Holm and Kawagoe, 2010;Lundqvist et al, 2009 detection or eventual punishment (e.g. Abeler et al, 2014;Steinberg et al, 1977).…”

“…For instance, windfalls or overpayments cannot be too large as to arouse suspicion. Similarly, the small amounts in honor stand experiments -a few cents to buy a newspaper (Pruckner and Sausgruber, 2013), cup of coffee (Bateson et al, 2006) or candy bar (Haan & Kooreman, 2002) or indeed the relatively small stake sizes ($1 or equivalent) in sender-receiver games (Cappelen et al, 2013;Gneezy, 2005;Gylfason et al, 2013) may be insufficiently high to deter intrinsically dishonest behavior.…”

Honesty or dishonesty of taxpayer communications in an enforcement regime

“…A recent example includes informal online networks developed by Uber drivers to pool information on enforcement, taxation, and other regulations (Oei andRing, 2016). al., 2013;Cappelen, Sørensen, and Tungodden, 2013;Gylfason, Arnardottir, and Kristinsson, 2013;Cojoc and Stoian, 2014;Glätzle-Rützler and Lergetporer, 2015;Gächter and Schulz, 2016). 2 In general, these studies reveal that individuals have a strong inclination to communicate honestly with each other, despite having clear incentives to be deceptive.…”