behavior of agents exposed to meditation before playing an investment game to others not exposed, we find that the formers show … more trust on average than the latters. Meditation seems to reduce risk aversion and “competitiveness” among people …

Our paper reconsiders the triadic design proposed by Cox (2004) to identify trust and reciprocity in investment games …. Specifically, we extend the design in two directions. First, we elicit expectations by a fixed-fee incentive scheme and test the … when reciprocity is investigated. Finally, we test the existence of an emotional bias, i.e. we test if expectations …