Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5061959 Economics Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that “fairer” players should trust less.

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