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Collective Trust Behavior

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Summary, in English

This paper investigates trust behavior in situations where decision-makers are large groups and the decision mechanism is collective. Theories from behavioral economics and psychology suggest that trust in such situations may differ from interindividual trust. The experimental

results here reveal a large difference in trust but not in trustworthiness between the individual and collective setting. Furthermore, a field experiment captures the determinants of collective

trust behavior among two Swedish cohorts. Beliefs about the other group and one’s own group are strongly associated with collective trustworthiness and trust behavior.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

25-53

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volume

112

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • voting
  • experiment
  • Decision making
  • beliefs

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9442