Trust and Cheating
研究信任博弈中双方对欺骗的个人观念如何影响决策,发现这些观念呈双峰分布,并构成内疚感的微观基础。
When we take a taxi we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract to take the shortest possible path. Is the behaviour of the driver affected by beliefs about our cheating notions? We address this question in the context of a trust game. We find that both parties to a trust exchange have personal notions of cheating and that these notions have a bimodal distribution. We conceptualise cheating notions as moral expectations, which provide a micro‐foundation for guilt. Cheating notions substantially affect decisions on both sides of the trust exchange.