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: Legal Theory BlogInnes & Mitra on an Honesty Experiment
By Lawrence Solum
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Robert Innes and Arnab Mitra (University of Arizona - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and University of Arizona, Department of Economics) have posted Is Dishonesty Contagious? An Experiment on SSRN. Here is the abstract:- When an individual believes that peers are predominantly untruthful in a given situation, is he/she more likely to be untruthful in that situation? We study this question in a deception experiment patterned after Gneezy (2005), finding evidence that dishonesty is indeed contagious. We argue that existing theories of other-regarding preferences are unlikely to explain this result.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).
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