White lies

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 723-733

  Erat, Sanjiv ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheap talk; Deception; Experiments; Lies

Indexed keywords

CHEAP TALK; DECEPTION; IN-LINE; LIES; SOCIAL PREFERENCE;

EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84861385877     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1449     Document Type: Article

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