Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities

Geoffrey Castillo; Lawrence Choo; Veronika Grimm

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.04.014

Are groups always more dishonest than individuals? The case of salient negative externalities

Geoffrey Castillo, Lawrence Choo, Veronika Grimm

Vienna Center for Experimental Economics

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Abstract

A common finding of the literature on dishonesty is that groups are more dishonest than individuals. We revisit this finding by replacing the experimenter, implicitly hurt by subjects’ dishonesty, with an explicit third-party: a local charity. With the charity we do not find groups to be more dishonest than individuals. Instead, groups can even help moderate the extent of the dishonesty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	598-611
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	198
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.04.014
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

502045 Behavioural economics
502057 Experimental economics

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