A recent study released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led by Dr. Shoham Choshen-Hillel at the School of Business Administration and the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, in addition contributions by Alex Shaw at the University of Chicago and Eugene Caruso at UCLA, found that Lawyers and Employers often tell lies to avoid appearing dishonest.
A variety of experiments were conducted to achieve the findings. In one experiment, the three researchers asked 115 Israeli lawyers to imagine a scenario in which they gave a client a work estimate of 60 to 90 billable hours Half of the participants were told that they actually worked only 60 hours, and the other half were told that they worked 90 hours. The client were unable to verify the number of hours works. In this scenario, 17 percent of the 60-hour group deliberately falsified and inflated their hours.
