UvA- Author
- Year
- 2012
- Title
- Can observers predict trustworthiness?
- Journal
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Volume | Issue number
- 94 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 246-259
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Interfacultary Research Institutes
Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE)
Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI) - Abstract
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We investigate whether experimental subjects can predict behavior in a prisoner's dilemma played on a TV show. Subjects report probabilistic beliefs that a player cooperates, before and after the players communicate. Subjects correctly predict that women and players who make a voluntary promise are more likely to cooperate. They are able to distinguish truth from lies when a player is asked about her intentions by the host. Subjects are to some extent able to predict behavior; their beliefs are 7~percentage points higher for cooperators than for defectors. We also study their Bayesian updating. Beliefs do not satisfy the martingale property and display mean reversion.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.378312
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