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The Collective Trust Game: An Online Group Adaptation of the Trust Game Based on the HoneyComb Paradigm
Published on: October 20, 2022
Cultural differences in investing in others and in the future: why measuring trust is not enough
Pascal Boyer1, Pierre Lienard, Jing Xu
1Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. pboyer@artsci.wustl.edu
Abstract:
Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people's willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results suggest that these measures capture deep differences in economic attitudes that are not detected by standard measures of generalized trust.
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