Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57480 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2012,06
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
Bracketing is a mental procedure about how people deal with multiple tasks. If a decision maker handles all the tasks at the same time, it is called broad bracketing. If she handles the tasks separately, e.g., one or a few tasks each time, it is called narrow bracketing. This paper experimentally investigates the effect of broad versus narrow bracketing in the context of a mini-trust game. The result shows that, in the narrow bracketing treatment, the investor (first mover) is more likely to place trust on others, but the receiver (second mover) is less likely to fulfill the trust under the same condition. The effect is partly conditional on beliefs in others' behavior.
Subjects: 
Framing
Choice Bracketing
Social Preference
JEL: 
C91
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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