Internet cautions: Experimental games with internet partners Academic Article uri icon

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.

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