CeDEx Seminar - Agne Kajackaite (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

Lying about Luck versus Lying about Performance

I compare lying behavior in a real-effort task in which participants have control over outcomes and a task in which outcomes are determined by pure luck. Participants lie significantly more in the random-draw task than in the real-effort task, leading to the conclusion lying about luck is intrinsically less costly than lying about performance.