Commitment Requests Do Not Affect Truth-Telling in Laboratory and Online Experiments

This repository provides the data for our paper: "Commitment Requests Do Not Affect Truth-Telling in Laboratory and Online Experiments." The Abstract reads: "Using a standard cheating game, we investigate whether the request to sign a no-cheating declaration affects truth-telling. Our design varies the content of a no-cheating declaration (a reference to ethical behavior vs. reference to possible sanctions) and the type of experiment (online vs. offline). Irrespective of the declaration’s content, commitment requests do not affect truth-telling, neither in the laboratory nor online. The inefficacy of commitment requests appears robust across different samples and does not depend on psychological measures of reactance."