This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal …-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided … an alternative explanation based on reciprocity. We propose a simple model and an experiment to test the relative …

autonomy are likely to reduce reciprocity in trust- based relationships. Results in our experiment, which is a modified version …The paper experimentally investigates the interactions between restrictions to personal autonomy and reciprocity in a … reciprocity when allowed to freely determine their behavior in the game. (This is an updated version of the CEEL Working Paper 2-05) …

steals? A great deal of research has examined how trust and social capital correlate with altruistic, reciprocal and … punishing behaviours, but less research has been dedicated to understanding the roles of trust and social capital in peoples … that trust plays a strong role in dictator behaviour and third-party behaviour. For dictators, trust correlates with the …

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal …-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided … an alternative explanation based on reciprocity. We propose a simple model and an experiment to test the relative …

experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation … reciprocity. Among our subjects, 40% of the reciprocators exploited moral wiggle room. …

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 …

greater trust than women do while women show much higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by …We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and … reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit …

Trust and reciprocity are the bond of society (Locke), but economic agents are both self-interested and intrinsically … critically discussed as well as relational behavioural principles (e.g. trust and reciprocity). The implications of this enlarged … accumulation and erosion of trust and social capital are explored. The tension between rules and trust turns out to be not …

other behavioral principles. Intrinsic motivations, reciprocity and trust being the most prominent among them. The paper …