This paper investigates how the passage of time affects trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. We use a hybrid lab … between messages and actual choices, communication raises cooperation, trust, and trustworthiness by about 50 percent. Lags … between the beginning of the interaction and the time to respond do not substantially alter trust or trustworthiness. Our …

Using a large-scale hybrid laboratory and online trust experiment with and without pre-play communication, we … investigate how the passage of time affects trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. Communication (predominantly through promises …) raises cooperation, trust, and trustworthiness by about 50 percent. This result holds even when three weeks pass between the …