2021
DOI: 10.3390/g12030066
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Trusting the Trust Game: An External Validity Analysis with a UK Representative Sample

Abstract: Using a nationally representative sample of 1052 respondents from the United Kingdom, we systematically tested the associations between the experimental trust game and a range of popular self-reported measures for trust, such as the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for self-reported trust. We find that, in our UK representative sample, the experimental trust game significantly and positively predicts generalised self-reported trust in the GSS. This association is robust across a number of al… Show more

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“…The PGG was originally developed to study group cooperative behavior (Ledyard, 1995) and did not include a peer influence manipulation. High token donation has been validated as a form of prosocial behavior through positive associations with selfreports of altruism and trust as well as behavioral measures of charitable giving (Banerjee et al, 2021;Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez, 2019;Laury & Taylor, 2008). To our knowledge, no published studies have linked low token donation to antisocial behavior; however, in the larger data set for this project, token donation was negatively associated with self-reports of conduct problems, r(144) = −.18, p = .03, and callous-unemotional traits, r(144) = −.21, p = .01.…”
Section: Susceptibility To Peer Influencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The PGG was originally developed to study group cooperative behavior (Ledyard, 1995) and did not include a peer influence manipulation. High token donation has been validated as a form of prosocial behavior through positive associations with selfreports of altruism and trust as well as behavioral measures of charitable giving (Banerjee et al, 2021;Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez, 2019;Laury & Taylor, 2008). To our knowledge, no published studies have linked low token donation to antisocial behavior; however, in the larger data set for this project, token donation was negatively associated with self-reports of conduct problems, r(144) = −.18, p = .03, and callous-unemotional traits, r(144) = −.21, p = .01.…”
Section: Susceptibility To Peer Influencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For this reason, future researchers should assess behavioral susceptibility to peer influence using approaches that do not involve the prisoner's dilemma. Furthermore, the ecological validity of token donation as a prosocial behavior and token keeping as an antisocial behavior is limited, in spite of positive associations between token donation and both altruism and charitable giving (Banerjee et al, 2021;Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez, 2019;Laury & Taylor, 2008) and negative associations between token donation and both conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits (larger data set for the current project). Furthermore, assessing both prosocial and antisocial behavior using the same measure (number of tokens donated/kept) ignores the fact that these two behaviors are not simply opposite ends of one continuum, although they are quite strongly negatively correlated across many studies (e.g., Carlo et al, 2014;Hardy et al, 2015;Hastings et al, 2000) and interventions that promote prosocial behavior often result in reductions in antisocial behavior (e.g., Vliek et al, 2014).…”
Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this study, we tested the correlation between the Trust Game and survey trust in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions of China. Previous studies have validated the correlation between the Trust Game and the survey in countries with different levels of economic development and cultural backgrounds, such as UK and Tanzania (Banerjee et al, 2021;Danielson & Holm, 2007), but the results are clearly heterogeneous. China is the second-largest economy in the world and the birthplace of Confucianism, a culture prevalent in East Asia, thus, it can be said that China has a strong geographical specificity and research value.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous work has attempted to study this. For example, a recent study indicated that trust behavior in the trust game is associated with self-reported trust (Banerjee et al, 2021). However, self-report questionnaires that measure socio-cognitive behavior do not capture the complexity of everyday life.…”
Section: Directions For Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To control the (un)trustworthiness of the partner's behavior, a preprogrammed algorithm can be used that models the partner's returns. A recent study showed that the trust behavior exhibited in the trust game is positively associated with measures outside of the lab conditions, such as self-reported trust (Banerjee et al, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%