Social networks and trust in cross-cultural economic experiments

Whom can we trust?: How groups, networks, and institutions make trust possible

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-90

  Barr, Abigail ^a   Ensminger, Jean ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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