Trust, Reciprocity and the Roles of Sex, Value Orientation and Risk Attitudes in an Investment Game
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abstract
An investment game is used to generate indices of trust and reciprocity from 182
young adults. The raw data indicate that men are more trusting than women and responders
return a larger share of their resources to more trusting senders than to less trusting
senders. Sex differences do not account for variation in reciprocity. When the value orientations
and risk attitudes of participants are introduced into a model to account for the variation in
trust they replace sex as the significant explanatory variables. When value orientations are
introduced into the reciprocity model, it interacts significantly with the trust index to
increase the explanatory power of the model.
