Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness-How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 534-541

  Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,b   Dunning, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic games; Risk taking; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856212246     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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