WiE Brown Bag Seminar - May

Join us for our fifth session of the WiE Brown Bag Seminar in 2026 featuring Georgia Buckle, a Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Her research examines how people make economic decisions on behalf of others, including when and why we lie for others, how paternalistic intentions affect decisions and whether we are more cautious for others under responsibility.

Would I Lie for You? The Impact of Reputational Costs in Prosocial Lying

Abstract: 

We test whether reputational lying costs are lower when lying to benefit others. In our between-subjects design, participants draw numbered chips from an envelope, report the unverified outcome, and then receive the equivalent number in GBP, allowing them to misreport the number for material benefit. Across treatments, we manipulate both the recipient of the payoff and the reputational lying costs incurred from lying by altering the likelihood of drawing the…