Dishonesty as a collective‐risk social dilemma
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چکیده
We investigated lying as a collective-risk social dilemma. Misreporting resulted in increased individual earnings but when total claims reached certain threshold, all group members were at risk of collective sanction, regardless their behavior. Due to selfishness and miscoordination, most individuals earned less than the reservation payoff from honest reporting group. However, preferences for truth-telling lowered sanction this setting compared dilemma game which players could make direct without lying. The sanctions decreased with aversion smaller size.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economic Inquiry
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0043-3640', '1465-7295', '0095-2583']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13171