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Trust, Cooperative Behavior And Economic Success: When Trust Is The Capital Of The Person?

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This article presents the results of study dedicated to the interrelation of trust, cooperative behavior and the size of the winning prize in the multi-way decision modified prisoners’ dilemma. The experiment was organized using a specially designed computer program. The study involved six groups of participants and each group consisted of 7 players. The experiment consisted of a series of 15 rounds and included preliminary and final testing. The study found that cooperative behavior within the members in the group had fallen during 11 rounds, but there was a tendency to improve it. The trust level of an individual and his/her choice of cooperative strategy in the first series of the experiment are interrelated. Generalized trust is a rather stable construct, but it does not remain unchanged with an actual reduction of cooperative behavior.

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  • Alexander N. Tatarko, 2014. "Trust, Cooperative Behavior And Economic Success: When Trust Is The Capital Of The Person?," HSE Working papers WP BRP 22/PSY/2014, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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