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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Trust Game"”.
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Learning to trust : experimental evidence of social learning in a real-world social network of player A's in a trust game.
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Physiological Synchrony Predicts Cooperative Behavior with High Stakes
… responses explain our natural tendency to be trusting and trustworthy towards a stranger? I address this question by conducting, to my knowledge, the first study of physiological synchrony (PS) between pairs of partners playing the trust game face-to-face. Participants were given the choice to …
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Trust as a Predictor of Eating Disorder Severity and Therapeutic Alliance in an Adolescent Clinical Sample
Trust is recognized as an important construct across many disciplines. Despite this recognition, trust has proven difficult to define and measure, due to its abstract nature and variety of properties. Economic exchanges have become the standard measure of behavioral trust. A recent version, the …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
… and suspiciousness have some overlap with mistrust, and thus this dissertation focuses on the use of trust games to examine behavior and neural mechanisms of spite sensitivity. Spite sensitivity is the fear that a partner is willing to take a hit in order to ensure that you do as well, as …
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Standing on the shoulders of birth intergenerational mobility, inequality, and pro-social preferences
… correlations are observed in interracial trust attitudes between mothers and children. However, this effect is substantially smaller and largely insignificant for non-coresident mothers and children. Disaggregating the trust attitudes shows strong intergenerational correlations amongst …
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Mechanisms of social dysfunction and treatment-related change in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
… deficits in two potential mechanisms: trust and social responsiveness. We propose to use the iterated Trust Game [7, 8]– an economic exchange task that operationalizes trust and social responsiveness– to investigate differences due to PTSS severity. We will also investigate changes …
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Does Child Sponsorship have a Positive Impact on the Quality of Life and Social Behavior of Sponsored Children? Evidence from Indonesia
… sponsorship, a time preference experiment and a trust game. The study looks specifically at self-esteem, optimism, social trust, educational outcomes, patience and reciprocity of 286 sponsored children and 234 non-sponsored children between the ages of 4 and 23. The study also implements an …
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Is Talk Cheap in High Stake Trust Games? An Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Cooperation
<p>Paper I. Trusting strangers when the stakes are high can be a risky endeavor. The fact that individuals cannot directly observe each other’s willingness to cooperate creates one of the central dilemmas in bargaining. The aim of this study is to investigate whether cheap talk is effective in high …
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The Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social and Non-social Risky Decision-Making
… Subjects (N=30) played an adaptation of the Trust Game while their blood-oxygen-level-dependent response was monitored using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Differences in risk preferences across social and non-social conditions as well as neuroimaging correlates of social and …
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The economics of language: accents, trust and social exchange in labour markets
… The experiment in this study - named the Trust Game - is designed to reveal the degree of trust and trustworthiness individuals display towards each other when the only information they receive is the race and linguistic background of their partners. The results indicate that a mother …
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Critical phenomena in evolutionary dynamics
… In Chapters 1 and 2, we study the evolution of trust from the perspective of game theory. In the trust game, two players have a chance to win a sum of money. The "investor" begins with one monetary unit. She gives a fraction of that unit to the "trustee." The amount she gives is multiplied by a …
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Social capital and microfinance
… personal shocks. Chapter two is titled "Can Games Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions." Economic theory suggests that market failures arise when contracts are difficult to enforce or observe. Social capital can help to solve these failures. Measuring social capital has …
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Trust and Trustworthiness in the Executive Compensation Policy Required By the Dodd-Frank Act: an Experimental Study
… of bonus compensation. This research utilizes a trust game and experimental economics methodologies to test the relative influence of say on pay and clawbacks of bonus compensation on shareholder trust and manager trustworthiness. Results show that shareholders are more likely to participate in …
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An experimental analysis of the risk-trust confound
The notion of trust has great significance to an economy. Trust is known to be associated with efficient judicial systems, improved government functioning with lower corruption, and better financial outcomes (Johnson and Mislin, 2011). However, many researchers have argued that risk attitudes may …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
… welfare and is closely linked to patterns of trust, cooperation, and the social relations that underpin collective action. This thesis uses laboratory experiments to examine how inequality, fairness, and the institutional conditions for enforcement and information influence cooperation and …
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Essays on Social Influences in Decision Making
… their payment. The results from a final online trust-game experiment support the posited mental-accounting mechanism for the effect. The third study, “Hold-Up Induced by Demand for Fairness: Theory and Experimental Evidence”, explores the domain of hold-up and fairness concerns. While recent …
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Three Essays in Experimental Economics
… between human subjects playing incentivised trust games. In Chapter 3, we study free-form communication using a dataset of over 1000 messages sent between participants in a laboratory Trust game. We employ Natural Language Processing to systematically generate meaningful partitions of the …
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The smell of altruism: Incidental pleasant odors and chemosignal as prosocial decisions moderators
… donate to unknown persons during Dictator and Trust Game. The results confirmed the existence of an association between the chemosignal stimulus presence (and its olfactory experience) and the amount donated, and a mediation effect due to the positive mood (in presence of AND) especially in …
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The role of networks in political economy
… Our protocol builds on a basic two-party trust game with a sender and receiver, to which we introduce a third-party to serve as either a monitor or punisher. The ex-ante benefits of a third party judge are ambiguous. On one hand, a third party may result in larger sender transfers due to …
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Using laboratory experiments to study otherwise unobservable labor market interactions
… experiment to investigate the ways that trust between strangers evolves in a setting where noisy feedback regarding mutual trustworthiness is present. We use a two-player sequential trust game where each trustor receives a sequence of noisy binary signals that reveal the trustworthiness …
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