Big Five personality factors in the Trust Game

Julia Müller () and Christiane Schwieren

Journal of Business Economics, 2020, vol. 90, issue 1, No 2, 37-55

Abstract: Abstract Growing interest in using personality variables in business and economic research has led to the question of whether personality, as measured by psychology, is useful to predict behavior. While personality can undoubtedly influence large-scale outcomes, it is less clear if personality variables can also be used to understand micro-behavior in games. We experimentally test the impact of personality factors (measured using the Big Five model) on behavior in the Trust Game. Overall, we find that personality can contribute to explaining the behavior of the first player, the trustor, whereas, the behavior of the second player, the trustee, cannot be explained by their personality. In fact, the trustee’s behavior is instead affected by the first player’s behavior, i.e., the second player’s response depends on whether or not the first player has trusted the second player.

Keywords: Personality; Big Five; Five-factor model; Incentives; Experiment; Trust Game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11573-019-00928-3

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