Replication data: Natural and Strategic Generosity as Signals of Trustworthiness
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1927
Abstract: We exploit the fact that generosity and trustworthiness are highly correlated and the former can thus be a sign of the latter. Subjects decide between a generous and a mean split in a dictator game. Some of them are informed from the start that afterwards they will participate in a trust game and that their choice in the dictator game may matter; others are not informed in advance. In the trust game, before trusters decide whether or not to trust, some trustees can reveal (or conceal) only their true choice in the dictator game, while others can say to trusters, truthfully or otherwise, what t ... more Availability: Free access (without registration)
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Subject area: | Economics | Economic theory and methodology | Organizational Sociology, Military Sociology | Sociology of Economics | Other Fields of Sociology | Social Psychology
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 2011-06-01;2011-11-03
Geographic coverage: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / GB
Universe: In total, 215 subjects participated in our computerized laboratory experiment. Subjects were Oxford University students, 46% were female and they were 23.4 (sd = 4.91) years old on average.
Sampling Procedure: All participants in our experiment were recruited from the subject pool maintained by the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) in Oxford. A random sample of participants was drawn from this subject pool and people included in this sample were invited via e-mail to participate in the experiment.
Mode of Data Collection: Laboratory experiment
Bibliographic information
Primärforschende, Institution: Gambetta, Diego; Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin | Przepiorka, Wojtek; Utrecht University
Publication year: 2014
Study number: SDN-10.7802-1927
Contributor, Institution, Role: Przepiorka, Wojtek;Utrecht University;Contact Person
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1927
Reference publications
Publications: Gambetta, Diego and Wojtek Przepiorka. 2014. "Natural and Strategic Generosity as Signals of Trustworthiness." PLOS ONE 9(5):e97533.;10.1371/journal.pone.0097533
