Enjoy the silence: an experiment on truth-telling

By Santiago Sánchez-Pagés, Marc Vorsatz. 2009

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4e90cdbb91164f4749237572a86270cf49b04db3

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In General Decision Sciences

1. E. Spiegelman
2. Raúl López-Pérez
3. Navin Kartik

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. E. Spiegelman
2. Raúl López-Pérez
3. Navin Kartik
4. Johannes Abeler

In Safety Research

1. E. Spiegelman
2. Raúl López-Pérez
3. Navin Kartik
4. Johannes Abeler

Citations in the corpus

• Strategic Communication with Lying Costs (2009, background): “Third, recent experimental work suggests that in some settings, people have an intrinsic aversion to lying, even though messages are prima facie cheap talk (Gneezy, 2005; Hurkens and Kartik, 2006; Sánchez-Pagés and Vorsatz, 2006).”
• Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure (2015, unknown): “Non-disclosure takes the form of vague messages in the case of SerraGarcia, van Damme, and Potters (2011) and silence in the case of Sanchez-Pages and Vorsatz (2009), so the latter is closer to our experiment.”
• Why do people tell the truth? Experimental evidence for pure lie aversion (2013, background): “First, how strong is lie aversion? Truthtelling in our study was cheap (just 1 Euro), would it decrease radically if its cost increases to, say, 5 Euros? Second, do people dislike telling lies or do they enjoy telling the truth (Sánchez-Pagés and Vorsatz 2009)? One can distinguish between these acco”