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Wooyoung Lim（The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）, RISS Seminar, June 15, 2023
Date：June 15, 2023（Open at 15:30, Start at 16:30- around 18:30）
Venue：Multimedia Laboratory,Senriyama Campus,Kansai University,Osaka,Japan and Online（Zoom）
Lecturers:Wooyoung Lim（The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）
Title："Lying and Deception in Repeated Communication" joint with Syngjoo Choi (SNU) and Chanjoo Lee (SNU)
Abstract：Lying and deception are common in economic interactions and have important strategic implications. While related, they are distinct phenomena that may have different effects on communication outcomes. In this paper, we study repeated communication with a reputation concern in a two-dimensional belief domain, and identify two environments where lying and deception are completely separated. In one environment, the sender must tell the truth to conceal a bad intention, while in the other, the sender must lie to reveal a good intention. Our experimental data show that the proportion of senders who successfully build reputations is lower than predicted in both environments. Furthermore, the deviation from theory is greater when reputation-building requires lying rather than deception. Finally, we observe that receivers punish senders for lying, even when the intention behind it is good. Our findings suggest that different communication mechanisms may perform differently depending on their reliance on lying or deception, highlighting the need to distinguish between these two concepts investigating organizational and political phenomena.
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