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Alempaki, Despoina, Doğan, Gönül and Yang, Yang (2021) Lying in a foreign language? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185 . pp. 946-961. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.027 ISSN 0167-2681.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.027
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Truthfulness and falsehood , Standard language , Social norms , Social norms -- Economic aspects, Business ethics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science BV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 185 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 946-961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.027 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 November 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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