Does the trust game measure trust?

Could altruism explain observed choices in the standard trust game? With dominant altruism, trustors would give more to poor trustees. However, we find trustors to give no more to poor than to rich trustees, confirming trust as the dominant motivation for “trust like” choices.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Brülhart, Marius ; Usunier, Jean-Claude
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 115.2012, 1, p. 20-23
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Trust game \| Altruism \| Experimental error

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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