Previous experiments have found mixed results on whether honesty is intuitive or requires deliberation. Here we add to this literature by building on prior work of Capraro (2017). We report a large study (N=1,389) manipulating time pressure vs time delay in a deception game. We find that, in this setting, people are more honest under time pressure, and that this result is not driven by confounds present in earlier work.
@article{arxiv.1805.09841,
title = {Time pressure and honesty in a deception game},
author = {Valerio Capraro and Jonathan Schulz and David G. Rand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09841},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, In press