Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …

raises the other players' beliefs about the donorsﾒ trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …

part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

whether a charitable donation increases the observing agents' trust in the donor. Our results support these hypotheses and … show that, apart from trust, responses to altruistic acts can have a rewarding or outcome-equalizing purpose. Our findings …

and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …

induce perceptions of trustworthiness and trust …

-essential visitation, we find that: stay-at-home orders reduce mobility by about 8­–10 percentage points; high-trust counties decrease … their mobility significantly more than low-trust counties post-lockdown; and counties with relatively more self …-lockdown is especially large for trust in the press, and relatively smaller for trust in science, medicine or government …

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …

This paper evaluates the effect of financial shocks on interpersonal trust levels, exploiting longitudinal survey data … from 22,112 Australians. Using within-individual level variation, we find that trust does not change meaningfully following … a positive financial shock (e.g., winning the lottery). However, trust falls sharply following a negative financial …