provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their design. Only a preceding stage (safe outside option vs. enter the game …) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …

We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness …, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive … beliefs-based mechanism for the effects of religious identity. More religious subjects expect greater prosociality/reciprocity …

, takes seriously an often neglected part of the story: the trust relationship between the Samaritan and the Innkeeper to whom … the Samaritan entrusted the wounded man. This narrative element offers inspiration for understanding the grammar of trust …