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...

Charness and Dufwenberg (2006) find that promises increase cooperation and suggest that the behavior of subjects in their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol we test an alternative explanation that promise keeping...