The effectiveness of cheap talk advice is examined in recurrent relationships between a customer and multiple experts who provide differentiated professional services. The main findings are: (i) Full honesty is not sustainable if the profitability of service provision varies widely across problems. (ii) As there are more experts due to finer specialization, the maximum equilibrium honesty level...

Patients with cancer comprise 40%–100% of patients seen by those working in hospice and palliative medicine around the world. Consequently, the skills of oncologists in integrating palliative care and making appropriate referrals for hospice care have been a subject of intense interest since the inception of the field. Most are aware that oncologists routinely assist patients in making difficul...

Morality is a prominent guide of both action and perception. We argue that non-emotional gestures can prime the abstract concept of honesty. Four studies demonstrated that the emblematic gesture associated with honesty (putting a hand on one's heart) increased the level of honesty perceived by others, and increased the honesty shown in one's own behavior. Target persons performing this gesture ...

A model of the cultural co-evolution of honesty and capital is analyzed. It is shown that the sign of the payoff differential between honest and dishonest types depends on the ratio of benefits that an employee gets from shirking to the resulting loss of revenue to the firm. If this ratio decreases with capital accumulation, then multiple equilibria in output and honesty are possible in the lon...

Abstract According to the Maxim of Quality, rational agents tend speak honestly. Due influence Grice, a connection between linguistic rationality and honesty is often taken for granted. However, not obvious: structural in language use does require honesty, any more than it requires dishonesty. In particular, Quality follow from Cooperative Principle rationality. But then what honest speech? I p...