Everybody else is doing it: exploring social transmission of lying behavior.

Lying is a common occurrence in social interactions, but what predicts whether an individual will tell a lie? While previous studies have focused on personality factors, here we asked whether lying tendencies might be transmitted through social networks. Using an international sample of 1,687 social...

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Main Authors: Heather Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Daniel Houser, Dan Ariely
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4198136?pdf=render