This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective …

An economic experiment involving separate sessions in 24 small, tightly knit communities reveals that trust is higher …

Broadly speaking, economic experiments and surveys have found trust to be much lower in Africa than in industrialized … countries. We analyze new experimental and survey results from rural Cameroon, where the average level of trust appears to be … of trust in people with whom they interact regularly, though not in people in general. There is a significant correlation …

How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …

general population. In contrast with the literature on in-group favoritism, we find that workers trust their colleagues less …

knowledge of the psychological bases of the observed outcomes of a basic trust game. Undergraduate students played a basic trust …

We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank … psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors influencing central bank trust that is more holistic than the … their trust in the ECB, tend to express higher trust in the ECB. Conversely, those who place greater importance on values …

investigate whether the level of trust among people measured in different ways can predict the amount of public good produced. I … find that (i) trust, as measured by survey questions, has poor predictive power, while (ii) the results from our version of … Trust Game are much better predictors of local public-good production. …