Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles
© The Author(s) 2020. Experimental studies of dishonesty usually rely on population-level analyses, which compare the distribution of claimed rewards in an unsupervised, self-administered lottery (e.g., tossing a coin) with the expected lottery statistics (e.g., 50/50 chance of winning). Here, we pr...
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| author | Pascual-Ezama, David Prelec, Drazen Muñoz, Adrián Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz |
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| description | © The Author(s) 2020. Experimental studies of dishonesty usually rely on population-level analyses, which compare the distribution of claimed rewards in an unsupervised, self-administered lottery (e.g., tossing a coin) with the expected lottery statistics (e.g., 50/50 chance of winning). Here, we provide a paradigm that measures dishonesty at the individual level and identifies new dishonesty profiles with specific theoretical interpretations. We found that among dishonest participants, (a) some did not bother implementing the lottery at all, (b) some implemented but lied about the lottery outcome, and (c) some violated instructions by repeating the lottery multiple times until obtaining an outcome they felt was acceptable. These results held both in the lab and with online participants. In Experiment 1 (N = 178), the lottery was a coin toss, which permitted only a binary honest/dishonest response; Experiment 2 (N = 172) employed a six-sided-die roll, which permitted gradations in dishonesty. We replicated some previous results and also provide a new, richer classification of dishonest behavior. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1339742023-01-11T19:28:28Z Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles Pascual-Ezama, David Prelec, Drazen Muñoz, Adrián Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz Sloan School of Management © The Author(s) 2020. Experimental studies of dishonesty usually rely on population-level analyses, which compare the distribution of claimed rewards in an unsupervised, self-administered lottery (e.g., tossing a coin) with the expected lottery statistics (e.g., 50/50 chance of winning). Here, we provide a paradigm that measures dishonesty at the individual level and identifies new dishonesty profiles with specific theoretical interpretations. We found that among dishonest participants, (a) some did not bother implementing the lottery at all, (b) some implemented but lied about the lottery outcome, and (c) some violated instructions by repeating the lottery multiple times until obtaining an outcome they felt was acceptable. These results held both in the lab and with online participants. In Experiment 1 (N = 178), the lottery was a coin toss, which permitted only a binary honest/dishonest response; Experiment 2 (N = 172) employed a six-sided-die roll, which permitted gradations in dishonesty. We replicated some previous results and also provide a new, richer classification of dishonest behavior. 2021-10-27T19:57:27Z 2021-10-27T19:57:27Z 2020 2021-04-12T15:25:04Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133974 en 10.1177/0956797620929634 Psychological Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf SAGE Publications Other repository |
| spellingShingle | Pascual-Ezama, David Prelec, Drazen Muñoz, Adrián Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title | Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title_full | Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title_fullStr | Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title_short | Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles |
| title_sort | cheaters liars or both a new classification of dishonesty profiles |
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