This dissertation consists of five essays contributing to a better understanding of three fundamental lines of research in behavioral economics: trust and cooperation in social interactions, gender discrimination, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. All essays are novel contributions...

Trust is essential to many daily exchanges, wherein a trustor sometimes decides to be vulnerable to an individual or other times to a group. Although a trustor may trust an individual more or less than a group, this topic has been underexplored. We therefore examine whether people are more...