AUTHOR=Medai Evelyn , Noussair Charles N. 

TITLE=Positive Emotion and Honesty

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694841

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694841

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>We report an experiment that considers the impact of emotional state on honesty. Using the die-rolling task created by Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi to detect the level of dishonesty in a sample of individuals, we study the effects of induced happiness on the incidence of self-interested lying. The experiment uses 360-degree videos to induce emotional state. We find that people behave more honestly in a state of happiness than they do in a neutral state.</p>