Document Type

Article

Keywords

behavior; game theory; altruistic behavior; economic history; cognition; decision making; economics; experimental economics

Identifier Data

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055968

Publisher

PLoS ONE

Publication Source

PLoS ONE, 8(3)

Rights Management

2013 Al-Ubaydli et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

We report data from laboratory experiments where participants were primed using phrases related to markets and trade. Participants then participated in trust games with anonymous strangers. The decisions of primed participants are compared to those of a control group. We find evidence that priming for market participation affects positively the beliefs regarding the trustworthiness of anonymous strangers and increases trusting decisions.

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