We investigate experimentally whether exposure to a context plagued by organised crime violence induces people to misreport private information as an instinctive re- sponse. We implement a standard coin ipping task repeated for 30 times, and measure participants' response times to identify hasty and thoughtful types of subjects. Our ndings support the hypothesis that living in a context plagued by organised crime violence induces a prevalence of hasty subjects who lie as an instinctive response. We record a higher degree of randomness in the decisions of hasty subjects compared to the thoughtful ones, indicating that exposure to a criminal context might limit individuals' ability to correctly gure out the incentives of the decision problem at hand.
Organised Crime Makes You Lie Hastily. Evidence from an on-line experiment
Patrizia Sbriglia;
2022
Abstract
We investigate experimentally whether exposure to a context plagued by organised crime violence induces people to misreport private information as an instinctive re- sponse. We implement a standard coin ipping task repeated for 30 times, and measure participants' response times to identify hasty and thoughtful types of subjects. Our ndings support the hypothesis that living in a context plagued by organised crime violence induces a prevalence of hasty subjects who lie as an instinctive response. We record a higher degree of randomness in the decisions of hasty subjects compared to the thoughtful ones, indicating that exposure to a criminal context might limit individuals' ability to correctly gure out the incentives of the decision problem at hand.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
