Pinocchio's pupil: Using eyetracking and pupil dilation to understand truth telling and deception in sender-receiver games

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 984-1007

  Wang, Joseph Tao Yi ^a   Spezio, Michael ^b,c   Camerer, Colin F ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 77956130847     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.3.984     Document Type: Article

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