While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … implementing a similar incentivized interaction structure. The results suggest that trust and trustworthiness increase with young … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on …

We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness …, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive … beliefs-based mechanism for the effects of religious identity. More religious subjects expect greater prosociality/reciprocity …

altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …

Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly …-reported anger highlights the importance of using both techniques for studying reciprocity. …

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears … important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness … appear less important, suggesting that trust and contract enforcement are substitutes. Here we show, however, that trust and …