Trust is a key aspect of various social interactions. Correspondingly, trust has been heavily
studied across different scientific disciplines. However, an integration of the diverse research …

Interpersonal trust is a mental construct with implications for social functioning and economic
behavior. We review contemporary theories of trust from behavioral economics and social …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

Trust is emerging as a key element of success in the on-line environment. Although
considerable research on trust in the offline world has been performed, to date empirical …

In this paper, we present a first survey of the literature regarding whether the strategy
method, in which a responder makes conditional decisions for each possible information set …

Using experiments, we examine whether the decision to trust a stranger in a one-shot
interaction is equivalent to taking a risky bet, or if a trust decision entails an additional risk …

How does gender influence trust, the likelihood of being trusted and the level of
trustworthiness? We compare choices by men and women in the Investment Game and use …

Research provides increasing evidence that women and men differ in their decisions to trust.
However, information systems research does not satisfactorily explain why these gender …

This paper investigates the capacity investment decision of a supplier who solicits private
forecast information from a manufacturer. To ensure abundant supply, the manufacturer has …

In a series of laboratory experiments that focus on a two-person sequential, binary trust
game, we examine the relationship between risk attitudes and the decision to trust an …