Alempaki, Despoina, Doğan, Gönül ORCID: 0000-0002-1075-1102 and Yang, Yang (2021). Lying in a foreign language? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 185. 946 - 962. AMSTERDAM: Elsevier. ISSN 1879-1751

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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. ? 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Alempaki, DespoinaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Doğan, GönülUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-1075-1102UNSPECIFIED
Yang, YangUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579286
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.027
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Volume: 185
Page Range: 946 - 962
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier
Place of Publication: AMSTERDAM
ISSN: 1879-1751
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Corporate Development > Professorship for Corporate Development & Corporate Responsibility
Subjects: Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
SOCIAL NORMS; CULTURAL ACCOMMODATION; BEHAVIOR; THINKING; HONESTY; VALUES; TESTSMultiple languages
EconomicsMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57928

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