Internet cautions: Experimental games with internet partners Academic Article

abstract

• We report the results of experiments conducted over the internet between two different laboratories. Each subject at one site is matched with a subject at another site in a trust game experiment. We investigate whether subjects believe they are really matched with another person, and suggest a methodology for ensuring that subjects' beliefs are accurate. Results show that skepticism can lead to misleading results. If subjects do not believe they are matched with a real person, they trust too much: i.e., they trust the experimenter rather than their partner. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006.

authors

• Eckel, Catherine

published proceedings

• EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Eckel, C. C., & Wilson, R. K.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• Eckel, CC||Wilson, RK

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Experimental Economics  Journal

keywords

• Beliefs
• Experiment
• Internet
• Methodology
• Trust Game

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10683-006-4307-4

start page

• 53

end page

• 66

volume

• 9

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs10683-006-4307-4