A must lie situation – avoiding giving negative feedback
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A must lie situation – avoiding giving negative feedback. / Gneezy, Uri; Gravert, Christina; Saccardo, Silvia; Tausch, Franziska.
I: Games and Economic Behavior, Bind 102, 01.03.2017, s. 445-454.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - A must lie situation – avoiding giving negative feedback
AU - Gneezy, Uri
AU - Gravert, Christina
AU - Saccardo, Silvia
AU - Tausch, Franziska
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - We examine under what conditions people provide accurate feedback to others. We use feedback regarding attractiveness, a trait people care about, and for which objective information is hard to obtain. Our results show that people avoid giving accurate face-to-face feedback to less attractive individuals, even if lying in this context comes at a monetary cost to both the person who gives the feedback and the receiver. A substantial increase of these costs does not increase the accuracy of feedback. However, when feedback is provided anonymously, the aversion to giving negative feedback is reduced.
AB - We examine under what conditions people provide accurate feedback to others. We use feedback regarding attractiveness, a trait people care about, and for which objective information is hard to obtain. Our results show that people avoid giving accurate face-to-face feedback to less attractive individuals, even if lying in this context comes at a monetary cost to both the person who gives the feedback and the receiver. A substantial increase of these costs does not increase the accuracy of feedback. However, when feedback is provided anonymously, the aversion to giving negative feedback is reduced.
KW - Feedback
KW - Laboratory experiment
KW - Lying
KW - Overconfidence
KW - Updating
U2 - 10.1016/j.geb.2017.01.008
DO - 10.1016/j.geb.2017.01.008
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85013994042
VL - 102
SP - 445
EP - 454
JO - Games and Economic Behavior
JF - Games and Economic Behavior
SN - 0899-8256
ER -
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