Is Trustworthiness Written on the Face?

Dilger Alexander, Müller Julia, Müller Michael


Zusammenfassung
Trust is an important driver of economic transactions, but how do people decide whom to trust? We conduct an experiment to investigate whether people are able to predict trustworthiness by judging the face of a stranger. The behavior of the second player in the Trust Game is used as a measure of trustworthiness. Other subjects assess the trustworthiness of the second players of the Trust Game in the second stage using standardized photos of their faces. We find no significant interrelation in our statistical estimations between trustworthiness ratings and the behavior of the examined players. Surprisingly, players that were rated as more attractive sent back significantly less in the Trust Game.



Publikationstyp
Sonstige wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2017

Band
2/2017

Reihe
Diskussionspapier des Instituts für Organisationsökonomik

Verlag
Institut für Organisationsökonomik

Ort
Münster

Sprache
Englisch

ISSN
2191-2475

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