Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5061959 | Economics Letters | 2008 | 4 Pages |
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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Authors
Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral,