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by cwkoss 2431 days ago
You let participants know that they'll receive money for every lie they "get away with" making them feel loss-aversion.

This has been used in psychological studies, but it's effectiveness is proportional to cost of doing the study, so it is expensive to get large datasets.

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Lying to get away with $10 is a lot different from lying to get away with murder.
If the machine could catch people lying for $10 (or $50, or ...) in a double blind study, that would set a quantifiable lower bound for its effectiveness.
1 How do you know. 2 Not for a psychopath.
I have to disagree. A psychopath will value their freedom more than $10 and will be inclined to react differently.