Social Preferences in the Trust Game
A special issue of Games (ISSN 2073-4336).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2020) | Viewed by 417
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Interests: political economy; psychological game theory; gender and politics
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Dear Colleagues,
The Trust Game is a stylized social dilemma in which the trustor may take a costly action that generates a social return, and the trustee decides how to divide such return between himself and the trustor.
Due to its simple structure, the Trust Game has been widely used in the literature to study – theoretically and/or experimentally – several types of trustees’ social preferences, including distributional preferences such as inequity aversion or revealed altruism, and belief-dependent preferences such as guilt aversion, reciprocity, shame aversion and other image concerns.
As shown by all these studies, the Trust Game is a powerful tool for both theoretical and experimental work. Indeed, several other distributional and belief-dependent preferences may affect players’ behavior in the Trust Game.
Games will publish a special issue which aims to gather theoretical and experimental work on social preferences in the Trust Game.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
- distributional preferences of the trustor and the trustee;
- belief-dependent preferences of the trustor and the trustee;
- evolution of social preferences through repeated interaction.
Prof. Giuseppe Attanasi
Prof. Pierpaolo Battigalli
Dr. Elena Manzoni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Trust Game
- Belief-dependent preferences
- Distributional preferences
- Evolution of preferences
- Experiments
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