The strategy method lowers measured trustworthy behavior

Marco Casari and Timothy Cason ()

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 103, issue 3, pages 157-159

Abstract: In a trust game experiment, we elicited choices using either the so-called game or strategy method. While the two methods yield similar rates of trust, the strategy method reveals a significantly lower rate of trustworthiness.

Keywords: Trust; Game; method; Laboratory; Experiments; Reciprocity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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