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Trial Title
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Honesty, Time Pressure and Gender
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Color me Honest! Time Pressure and (Dis-)Honest Behavior
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Trial Status
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in_development
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completed
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Abstract
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Everyday life offers ample opportunities to gain an advantage through misreporting.
The aim of this research project is to investigate lying behavior by focusing on two specific characteristics: time pressure and gender.
As far as time pressure, existing literature is rather controversial as it is reported to both increase honesty
and decrease it.
We would like to argue that these opposing findings may well be the result of a methodological flaw. Most studies use the dice-in-the-cup paradigm to measure honesty.
However, a lot of people have a readily available default for this situation: claiming a roll of 6.
In order not to trigger this automatic response, we propose a variant of the dice-in-a-cup paradigm where regular dice pips are replaced with colors.
As opposed to regular dice with pips, we expect that the participants do not have a default response with respect to which color to report.
The very same channel, namely that lying under time pressure is driven by experience, may as well be able to explain gender differences in lying.
We would like to argue that since men gamble more often than women, they accumulate more experience with rolling the dice and by extension, misreporting their rolls. Under time pressure, an intuitive answer formed by experience is triggered and so we expect when using regular dice, average reports by men are higher than those by women.
By contrast, when using dice with colors, gender differences are expected to vanish under time pressure.
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We introduce a modified version of the die-in-the-cup paradigm to study (dis-)honest behavior under time pressure. Replacing the regular die with one that has a distinct color on its either side enables us to manipulate the amount of familiarity with the randomization device. This both removes the limitations of the original paradigm and allows for a test of theories that suggest that (dis-)honest behavior is affected by the relative difficulty of generating false reports.
We also replace the cup with a simple mechanical device for better control over the very process of rolling the die and collect mouse movement data from the participants to investigate the present behavioral archetypes.
Our main finding is that time pressure leads to more dishonest behavior, but only if the regular die is used. We also find that when given the time to deliberate, the participants generally report lower values if the regular rather than color die is used.
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Trial End Date
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November 22, 2018
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June 14, 2019
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Last Published
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November 08, 2018 06:03 AM
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May 14, 2020 04:02 AM
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Study Withdrawn
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No
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Intervention Completion Date
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June 14, 2019
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Data Collection Complete
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Before
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Yes
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Was attrition correlated with treatment status?
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No
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Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations
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229 participants
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Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms
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58 color & time pressure, 58 color & no time pressure, 58 no color & no time pressure, 55 no color & time pressure
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Is there a restricted access data set available on request?
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Yes
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Restricted Data Contact
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[email protected]
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Program Files
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Yes
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Program Files URL
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https://gitlab.com/hauslaca2/waldo
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Data Collection Completion Date
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Before
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June 14, 2019
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Is data available for public use?
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No
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Intervention End Date
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November 22, 2018
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June 14, 2019
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