Can we infer social preferences from the lab?
Subtitle: evidence from the trust game
By: Nicole M. Baran, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales.
Contributors: Sapienza, Paola.; Zingales, Luigi.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15654; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15654.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al.  (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation.  By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a desire to conform to social norms distorts results in the lab, yet we do find evidence that it affects results in the field"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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