Organised Crime Makes You Lie Hastily: Evidence from An On-Line Experiment

19 Pages Posted: 19 Jan 2023

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Anna Conte

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Statistical Sciences

Patrizia Sbriglia

University of Campania - LUIGI VANVITELLI

Marco Stimolo

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II

Date Written: April 19, 2022

Abstract

We investigate experimentally whether exposure to a context plagued by organised crime violence induces people to misreport private information as an instinctive response. We implement a standard coin flipping task repeated for 30 times, and measure participants' response times to identify hasty and thoughtful types of subjects. Our findings support the hypothesis that living in a context plagued by organised crime violence induces a prevalence of hasty subjects who lie as an instinctive response. We record a higher degree of randomness in the decisions of hasty subjects compared to the thoughtful ones, indicating that exposure to a criminal context might limit individuals' ability to correctly figure out the incentives of the decision problem at hand.

Keywords: organised crime violence, hastiness, lying, mistaken choices

JEL Classification: A13, C91, D63

Suggested Citation

Conte, Anna and Sbriglia, Patrizia and Stimolo, Marco, Organised Crime Makes You Lie Hastily: Evidence from An On-Line Experiment (April 19, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4326939 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4326939

Anna Conte

Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Statistical Sciences ( email )

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Patrizia Sbriglia (Contact Author)

University of Campania - LUIGI VANVITELLI ( email )

Gran Priorato di Malta
Caserta CE, Caserta 83100
Italy

Marco Stimolo

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II ( email )

Corso Umberto I, 40
Napoli, 80138
Italy

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