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 …

participated in a trust game and filled in a questionnaire on trust and trustworthiness based on the attitudinal questions reported … another based on the strategy method. We then compare the ex-ante behavioural decision to trust (before participants are … allocated to a group) with the ex-post decision to trust (after participants are allocated to a group and trustors are informed …

, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …