Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Toke Reinholt Fosgaard
Author-Name-First: Toke Reinholt
Author-Name-Last: Fosgaard
Author-Email: tf@foi.ku.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Title: Asymmetric default bias in dishonesty – how defaults work but only when in one’s favor
Abstract: Based on a dice rolling task where participants can cheat on the outcome, this paper asks if default answers change dishonesty? The paper finds that various default answers have asymmetric effects. Compared to not having a default answer at all, providing a low default answer, or adding the expected mean as the default answer when participants report the outcome of the task do not affect behavior. Adding a high default answer, however, significantly increases the reported outcome.
Length: 10 pages
Creation-Date:  2013-04
File-URL: http://okonomi.foi.dk/workingpapers/WPpdf/WP2013/IFRO_WP_2013_8.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 2013/8
Classification-JEL: C91, D03
Keywords: Dice task, Cheating, Default bias
Handle: RePEc:foi:wpaper:2013_8