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| Title: | | Trust among the avatars: A virtual world experiment, with and without textual and visual cues  |
| Authors: | | Atlas, Stephen Putterman, Louis |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper, Brown University, Department of Economics 2010-18 |
| Abstract: | | We invited residents of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to in world wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both a photo and text were added. We find high levels of trust and reciprocity that appear still higher for non-student and older subjects. Variation of results by treatment suggests that both photographic and textual cues influenced the level of trust but not that of trustworthiness. |
| Subjects: | | trust experiment internet virtual world priming |
| JEL: | | C70 C91 D03 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, Brown University
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