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Figure 1: Most Common Beliefs About Lying: Study 1
TABLE 1 (continued)
Figure 2: Beliefs About Lying: Study 2
A world of lies
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January 2006

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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This article reports two worldwide studies of stereotypes about liars. These studies are carried out in 75 different countries and 43 different languages. In Study 1, participants respond to the open-ended question “How can you tell when people are lying?” In Study 2, participants complete a questionnaire about lying. These two studies reveal a dominant pan-cultural stereotype: that liars avert gaze. The authors identify other common beliefs and offer a social control interpretation.

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... Bonus contracts that rely on fairness and trust can, in fact, be more efficient than explicit incentive contracts that are enforced by the courts (Baker et al., 1994;Fehr and List, 2004;Fehr and Schmidt, 2004;Fehr et al., 2007). However, attributions of dishonesty are often stereotypical and inaccurate (Aavik et al., 2006). This is partially due to game playing on the side of the agent, who may adjust his conduct in social interactions so as to guide the impression that the principal forms of him (Goffman, 1990;Leary and Kowalski, 1990). ...

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Putting a Realistic Theory of Mind into Agency Theory: Implications for Reward Design and Management in Principal‐Agent Relations
A world of lies

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Aavik

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Ahmad

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Zhang