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 …

We examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our design admits observation of …

For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation …

other hand, efficiency concerns and an aversion against violating trust seem to be far less important motivations. We also …

Many economic interactions rely on trust, which is sometimes violated. The fallout from business fraud and other … malfeasance shows serious economic consequences of trust violations. Simple rules mandating minimum standards are attractive … because they prevent the most egregious trust violations. However, such rules may undermine more trusting and reciprocal …

definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …

rare. We investigate the significant positive reciprocity in a prior experiment which broke a trust game into a 2-stage …