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We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information andexpectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995). In our experiment,only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’expectations about each other’s behavior are also elicited. Our resultsshow that average payback...
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We introduce opportunities for pre-play communication and to enter binding or non-binding contracts in trust games, and …
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We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre …
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We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
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How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary...
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We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game …
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We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
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by allowing participants to condition their choices in an asymmetric prisoner's dilemma and a trust game (i) on their …
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We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …
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Fairness is a strong concern as shown by dictator and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency, measured by the sum of individual payoffs, is a potentially competing concern in games such as the prisoners' dilemma. In our experiment participants can increase efficiency by gift giving. In the one-sided...
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