Are preferences for reforms driven by individuals' own endowments or beliefs? To address this question, we conducted a … difficult and personal interests are at stake. We find that individuals' beliefs matter more than their own endowments and … personal pay-offs. A randomized information treatment confirms that beliefs explain views about reform, but beliefs can change …

primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion …