We run an experimental study using sender-receiver games to evaluate how senders' willingness lie others compares their tell hard truths, i.e., promote outcome that the sender knows is unfair receiver without explicitly lying. Unlike in previous work on lying when it has consequences, we do not find antisocial behavior less frequent involves than does not. In fact, opposite result setting where...

Abstract Groups, like individuals, can communicate. They issue statements, make promises, give advice. Sometimes, in doing so, they lie and deceive. The goal of this paper is to offer a precise characterisation what it means for group an assertion lie. I begin by showing that Lackey’s influential account unable distinguish assertions from other speech acts, explicit statements implicatures, lyi...