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raises the other players' beliefs about the donors’ trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …
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whether a charitable donation increases the observing agents' trust in the donor. Our results support these hypotheses and … show that, apart from trust, responses to altruistic acts can have a rewarding or outcome-equalizing purpose. Our findings …
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whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness …
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Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the determinants for efficiency in credence goods...
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and start over as new sellers. Buyer trust and seller trustworthiness decrease significantly when sellers can erase their … ratings. With identity changes, trust is particularly low towards new sellers since buyers cannot discriminate between truly …
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We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which … through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had … effects on observed trust in which participants’ relative performance framed trusting behavior. …
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and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
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power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with … representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
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We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
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Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
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