Lying to Police Officers in the Ultimatum Game

An Experimental Study With Israeli Samples

Bibliographic Data

ID13662012
AuthorsEitan Elaad (0000-0002-2741-5367, Ariel University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume128
Issue4
Pages2530-2549
Publication date2023-06-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00332941231180443
PMID37282578
OpenAlexW4379599358
LanguageEN
References cited25

Two studies examined lying, fair sharing, and trust of Israeli police officers and laypeople to police and non-police target persons in the Ultimatum Game. Participants aimed to retain as many resources as possible in a sharing situation. To this end, they could conceal resources from the target person. Thus, a measure of lying was created by letting participants act in a specific role. Results indicated that police officers lied less to police targets than non-police targets. Conversely, laypeople lied more to police targets and less to non-police targets. Police officers' preference for honest sharing with police targets and laypeople's selfish sharing with police targets signified the first study's results. Results were explained by ingroup-outgroup differences, further inspired by severe events undermining the Israeli police's reputation. One year later, similar but weaker results were obtained in a second study. Police officers trusted police targets more than non-police targets, and laypeople trusted police targets less than non-police targets

Ingroups and outgroups · Lying · Outgroup · Political science · Prosocial behavior · Reputation · Ultimatum game · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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