The willingness to trust human receivers is compared to the inclination to take lottery risk in six distinct scenarios … pure-risk lottery allocation, and paired comparisons reveal that investors sacrifice 5% of the expected payoff to trust … complement the accumulating evidence regarding physiological differences between trust and risk, in addition suggesting that the …

relationship between risk attitudes and the decision to trust an anonymous partner. Our experiments include two behavioral risk … measures and one survey measure of risk attitudes in addition to the trust game. We find no statistical relationship between … the behavioral risk measures and the decision to trust. With additional control variables, there is a weak relationship …