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Lying in a Foreign Language?

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2017
  • 3
    Citations
  • 1,944
    Usage
  • 5
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    3
    • Citation Indexes
      3
  • Usage
    1,944
    • Abstract Views
      1,623
    • Downloads
      321
  • Captures
    5
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      190,274

Article Description

We experimentally investigate whether using a foreign language affects social and personal norms on dishonesty, and whether language dependent norms explain lying behaviour. Participants can inflate their relative performance in a real effort task, and thereby increase their own payoff at a cost to another. As our main treatment manipulation, we vary the language of the experiment, that is conducted either in one’s native or a foreign language. We find that dishonesty is generally perceived as more socially inappropriate in one’s native language. However, we do not find a systematic foreign language effect on lying behaviour.

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