Face-to-face lying – An experimental study in Sweden and Japan

Summary, in English

This paper investigates face-to-face lying and beliefs associated with it. In experiments in Sweden and Japan, subjects answer questions about personal characteristics, play a face-to-face sender–receiver game and participate in an elicitation of lie-detection beliefs. The previous finding of too much truth-telling (compared to the equilibrium prediction) also holds in the face-to-face setting. A new result is that although many people claim that they are good at lie-detection, few reveal belief in this ability when money is at stake. Correlations between the subjects’ characteristics and their behavior and performances in the game are also explored.

• Author: Jerker Holm; Toshiji Kawagoe
• Department/s: Department of Economics
• Publishing year: 2010
• Language: English
• Pages: 310-321
• Publication/Series: Journal of Economic Psychology
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lunewp2008_005.htm; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.001
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Economics
• Keywords: Truth detection; Lying; Experiment; Lie-detection; Game theory
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1872-7719