Preferences for Truthfulness: Heterogeneity Among and Within Individuals

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Let’s be honest: A review of experimental evidence of honesty and truth-telling (2014, background): “Such findings suggest that individuals exhibit heterogenous preferences for truthfulness (Gibson et al., 2013).”
Preferences for Truth‐Telling (2016, background): “12This includes, for example, Ellingsen and Johannesson (2004); Kartik (2009); Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013); Gibson et al. (2013); Gneezy et al. (2013); Conrads et al. (2013); Conrads et al. (2014); and DellaVigna et al. (2016).”
Voting to Tell Others (2014, background): “Notice that both conditions could hold, for 0 , provided is large enough.”
Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements? (2012, background): “[24] Falk and Kosfeld (2006) Swiss students (804) GiftExchange Game • Different levels of a lower bound of performance selected by the experimenter (low, medium, and high) • The principal could choose whether to impose the minimum level or not • The principal chooses the agent’s wage and wheth”
Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals (2015, background): “All in all, there is strong evidence for lying, but often not to the maximal extent possible; suggesting that there are private costs associated with such unethical behavior (Gneezy, 2005; Charness and Dufwenberg, 2006; Erat and Gneezy, 2012; Gibson, Tanner, and Wagner, 2013).”