Chloe Tergiman (Pennsylvania State University) – The impact of preferences for truth-telling on altruism

We use a laboratory experiment to study whether individuals’ preferences for honesty outweigh social preferences. While individual decision-making tasks show that people exhibit both preferences for honesty and social preferences, when both are in conflict, the former trump the latter showing that social preferences have little impact on behavior if it involves being dishonest. These results suggest that assuming the absence of social preferences in games that involve dishonesty may lead to minimal losses when it comes to modeling behavior.

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