Variability in repeated economic games: comparing trust game decisions to other social trust measures.

ABSTRACT: Economic games are well-established tools that offer a convenient approach to study social behaviour. Although widely used, recent evidence suggests that decisions made in the context of standard economic games are less predictive of real-world behaviour than previously assumed self-reported questionnaires. A possible explanation for this discrepancy is that economic games decisions in the laboratory are more likely to be influenced by the current situation, while questionnaires are specifically designed to measure people's average behaviour across a long period of time. To test this hypothesis, we performed a longitudinal study where 275 respondents played 16 Trust games every two days within a three-week period, and filled out a questionnaire that measures social trust. This study confir

SUBMITTER: Safra L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9515631 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature