Would I lie to you? On social preferences and lying aversion

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Strategic Communication with Lying Costs (2009, background): “Third, recent experimental work suggests that people have an intrinsic aversion to lying, even though messages are prima facie cheap talk (Gneezy, 2005; Hurkens and Kartik, 2008; Sánchez-Pagés and Vorsatz, 2006).”
Preferences for Truth‐Telling (2016, background): “Reporting about state of mind: Following Jiang (2013) and Greene and Paxton (2009), quite a few studies ask subjects to privately make a prediction about the outcome of a random draw.”
Why do people tell the truth? Experimental evidence for pure lie aversion (2013, result): “Our study contributes to a burgeoning experimental literature examining deception and honesty—e.g., Gneezy (2005), Charness and Dufwenberg (2006), Vanberg (2008), Hurkens and Kartik (2009), Sutter (2009).”
Trust in Forecast Information Sharing (2011, positive): “The existence of this psychological cost from deception is supported by extant literature (e.g., Gneezy 2005, Hurkens and Kartik 2009, Lundquist et al. 2007).”