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In this paper, we present the results of an experiment conducted in Italy on trusting behaviour. Our subjects … two measures of trustworthiness among all recipients in the experiment, one based on the questionnaires’ answers and …
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Trust and reciprocity promote cooperation and are key elements of a successful social life. This study investigated the framing effects on trust and reciprocity behaviors. Using an iterated one-shot within-subjects design, this study explored how trust and reciprocity decisions changed when the...
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Oxytocin has been proposed to regulate human trust. Previous experiments supported this claim by demonstrating that exogenous and endogenous oxytocin is associated with trust (how much trust people place in strangers) and reciprocity (how much people reciprocate when trusted). However, recent...
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confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … decision maker’s ignorance about her own characteristics or performance and, thus, deals with confidence. We design a … multistage experiment where subjects face different sources of ambiguity and where we are able to control for self …
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Classical economic theory assumes that people are rational and selfish, but behavioral experiments often point to inconsistent behavior, typically attributed to "other regarding preferences." The Ultimatum Game, used to study fairness, and the Trust Game, used to study trust and trustworthiness,...
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and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation experiment and a … competition experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool, and examine games randomly selected from the … same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment, and clarifies the …
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meet a performance quota in a real effort task to earn their endowments. We report experiment treatments with sequential …
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This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust. We have nested our …
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I use data from a previous experiment for classifying subjects based on their behavior in the trust game. Prior …
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