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The victim matters – experimental evidence on lying, moral costs and moral cleansing

Lukas MeubFaculty of Economic Sciences, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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Till ProegerFaculty of Economic Sciences, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Tim SchneiderFaculty of Economic Sciences, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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Kilian BizerFaculty of Economic Sciences, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Pages 1162-1167 | Published online: 27 Jan 2016

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Maryam Dilmaghani & Vurain Tabvuma. (2020) Who pays for my lies? Comparing dishonesty at the expense of the experimenter and fellow subjects. Economics Letters 194, pages 109385.
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Julien Benistant & Marie Claire Villeval. (2019) Unethical behavior and group identity in contests. Journal of Economic Psychology 72, pages 128-155.
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Christian Schitter, Jürgen Fleiß & Stefan Palan. (2019) To claim or not to claim: Anonymity, symmetric externalities and honesty. Journal of Economic Psychology 71, pages 13-36.
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Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim & Marie Claire Villeval. (2019) Loss aversion and lying behavior. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 158, pages 379-393.
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