Collaborative Research on Trust, Race, Framing and Institutions

本研究的重点是歧视与信任之间的联系。考虑到信任在陌生人初次相遇的成功中扮演的重要角色，这种联系尤其重要。在许多社会环境中，信任和互惠可以改善双方的福祉。通常，简短的面对面互动是个人在经济和政治舞台上发起和建立社交网络的主要基础。如果特定的种族群体在这些短暂的互动中不被信任(通过歧视)，那么来自这些民族群体的个人就失去了证明自己值得信任的机会。因此，这些人失去了许多金融机会，这些机会源于信任关系推动的重复互动。实验室实验被用来让陌生人彼此做出决定。这些决定涉及财务风险，其中一个人可以信任另一个人，作为回报，另一个人可以选择值得信任。这些实验操纵了三个主要变量：合作伙伴的种族；做出决定的框架；以及信任游戏背后的制度保障。这些实验是新颖的，因为它们是通过互联网在多个实验室之间实时进行的。这些实验表明，政策干预可以通过最大限度地减少歧视来鼓励最初的信任行为。

This research focuses on the linkage between discrimination and trust. This linkage is especially important when considering the important role that trust plays in the success of initial encounters between strangers. In many social settings trust and reciprocity can improve the well-being of both parties. Quite often brief, face-to-face interactions are the primary basis by which individuals initiate and build social networks in economic and political arenas. If particular ethnic groups are not trusted in these brief interactions (through discrimination), then individuals from those ethnic groups lose the opportunity to prove themselves trustworthy. Consequently those individuals lose access to many financial opportunities that stem from repeated interactions that are fueled by trusting relationships.Laboratory experiments are used by which strangers make decisions with one another. The decisions involve financial stakes in which one person can trust another, and in return, a counterpart can choose to be trustworthy. The experiments manipulate three major variables: the ethnicity of the partners; the framework in which the decision is cast; and the institutional guarantees underlying the trust game. The experimental are novel in that they are conducted via the internet, in real time, between multiple laboratories. The experiments suggest policy interventions that can encourage initial trusting behavior through minimizing discrimination.