Punishing liars-How monitoring affects honesty and trust.

Previous experiments have shown that the possibility to punish liars does not per se increase honesty in principal-agent relationships. In this study, we first establish a punishment mechanism that substantially enhances honest behavior and trust in a sender-receiver game: the possibility to impose...

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Main Authors: Sascha Behnk, Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Aurora García-Gallego
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6179269?pdf=render