Identifying In-Group and Out-Group Effects in the Trust Game

Smith Alexander ()
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Smith Alexander: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2011, vol. 11, issue 1, 13

Abstract: This paper presents an experiment measuring how lab-induced group identity affects trust and trustworthiness in a repeated trust game with random matching. Identity had positive in-group and negative out-group effects on trust. However, the in-group effect was small and statistically insignificant, while the out-group effect was large. Trustworthiness was determined mainly by reciprocity effects.

Keywords: trust; trustworthiness; reciprocity; group identity; trust game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2878

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