Social exposure and trustworthiness: Experimental evidence

Wei Bao, Yulei Rao, Jianxin Wang and Daniel Houser

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 162, issue C, 73-75

Abstract: A large number of empirical studies have investigated the value of exposing one’s decisions to social networks in increasing trustworthy behavior, but these suffer from several limitations. This paper reports data from a controlled laboratory experiment that demonstrates even minimal social exposure dramatically increases trustworthy behavior.

Keywords: Social exposure; Trustworthiness; Experimental design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C91 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.10.017

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