Yes. And it seems the effect is causal: studying business and economics makes you more likely to lie:
Recent experimental evidence suggests that some people dislike telling lies, and tell the truth even at a cost. We use experiments as well to study the socio-demographic covariates of such lie aversion, and find gender and religiosity to be without predictive value. However, subjectsâ major is predictive: Business and Economics (B&E) subjects lie significantly more frequently than other majors. This is true even after controlling for subjectsâ beliefs about the overall rate of deception, which predict behavior very well: Although B&E subjects expect most others to lie in our decision problem, the effect of major remains. An instrumental variables analysis suggests that the effect is not simply one of selection: It seems that studying B&E has a causal impact on behavior.
Source: “Do Economists Lie More?” from ECONOMIC ANALYSIS WORKING PAPER SERIES, Working Paper 4/2012
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Title | Do economists lie more? |
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Author | Eric Barker |
Date | March 2, 2012 7:23 PM UTC (12 years ago) |
Blog | bakadesuyo |
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