Bare promises: an experiment

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2010.02.009MaRDI QIDQ974225zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary Charness, Martin Dufwenberg

Publication date 27 May 2010

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.02.009

zbMATH Keywords

promisescommunicationguilt aversioncost-of-lyingtruth-value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90)

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