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A field experiment on dishonesty: A registered replication of Azar et al. (2013)

PROCHÁZKA, Jakub; Yulia FEDOSEEVA and Petr HOUDEK

Basic information

Original name

A field experiment on dishonesty: A registered replication of Azar et al. (2013)

Authors

PROCHÁZKA, Jakub; Yulia FEDOSEEVA and Petr HOUDEK

Edition

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, New York, Elsevier, 2021, 2214-8043

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

URL

Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/21:00120717

Organization

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta – Repository – Repository

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101617

UT WoS

000625351200009

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85092163134

Keywords in English

Dishonesty; field experiment; registered replication; customer behaviour

Links

MUNI/A/1073/2019, interní kód Repo. MUNI/A/1148/2018, interní kód Repo.
Changed: 26/8/2022 03:00, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

In the original language

This study is a registered replication of a field experiment on dishonesty by Azar et al. (2013). Their main finding was that most customers of an Israeli restaurant did not return excessive change; however, customers who received a higher amount of excessive change returned it more often than people who received a lower amount. Our study, which was conducted on a sample of customers of restaurants in the Czech Republic (N=219), replicated the results of the original study. The high excessive change condition increased the chance of returning the excess change by 21.7 percentage points (17.4 percentage points in the original study). The findings show that the psychological costs of dishonesty can outweigh its financial benefits. We similarly found that repeat customers and women were more likely to return the excessive change than one-time customers and men. The majority (70%) of customers in our sample returned the excessive change. We discuss the importance of field studies and replications of them in the further development of research into dishonest behavior.
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