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Face-to-face lying – An experimental study in Sweden and Japan

Holm, Jerker LU and Kawagoe, Toshiji (2010) In Journal of Economic Psychology 31(3). p.310-321
Abstract
This paper investigates face-to-face lying and beliefs associated with it. In experiments in Sweden and Japan, subjects answer questions about personal characteristics, play a face-to-face sender–receiver game and participate in an elicitation of lie-detection beliefs. The previous finding of too much truth-telling (compared to the equilibrium prediction) also holds in the face-to-face setting. A new result is that although many people claim that they are good at lie-detection, few reveal belief in this ability when money is at stake. Correlations between the subjects’ characteristics and their behavior and performances in the game are also explored.
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Truth detection, Lying, Experiment, Lie-detection, Game theory
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Journal of Economic Psychology
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310 - 321
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Elsevier
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1872-7719
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10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.001
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  series       = {{Journal of Economic Psychology}},
  title        = {{Face-to-face lying – An experimental study in Sweden and Japan}},
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