Understanding social motives and norms of trust and reciprocity is essential for explaining many phenomena in organizations. A primary goal of this research is to extend past work on trust and reciprocity by examining the impact of the social contexts, within which social interactions are...

This paper presents evidence that trust and reciprocity behavior and perceptions is sensitive to whether people are making decisions solely on their own behalf or when they are given the responsibility to act on behalf of their groups. Employing the widely-used experimental framework of the...

In the vast majority of laboratory experiments documenting the existence of reciprocity subjects are endowed with windfall funds. In many environments with salient fairness considerations such endowments are known to inflate subjects' other-regarding behavior, thereby creating a so-called...