Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …