: Trust rather than no trust was the default. People are more trusting when the default is full trust than when it is no trust …. We introduce a new game, the distrust game (DTG), where the default is full trust and find that in it, trust levels are … higher than in the Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995) trust game (TG), where the default is no trust. At the same time …

-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …

important primitives of social capital – trust and reciprocity – which can be used to explain deviations from the Nash … the behaviour of players in experimental trust and dictator games and suggest that the most informative utilization of … questionnaire about attitudes to trusting and reciprocating predict subjects’ behaviour and, by comparing behaviour in Trust and …

Although it is well known that trust is an important component of the fulfilment of incomplete contracts, less is known …

information even when costly. We find fairly high trust and trustworthiness levels in all markets, with buyers showing a …, ceteris paribus, evidence that the availability of feedback-provision histories increases buyer trust by reducing missing …

In this paper, we address the concept of trust by combining (i) the self-reported trust and belief in trustworthiness …' distributional preferences, (iii) strategies submitted in the trust game in both roles of the game, and (iv) subjects' beliefs about … scoring rule.We show that trust can be expressed as a belief in positive reciprocity of the trustee, and answers to general …