Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Effects of Betrayal in Economic Decision Making

经济学博士论文研究：背叛对经济决策的影响

• 批准号: 0851250
• 负责人: Daniel Houser
• 金额: $ 0.68万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-15 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Effects

This award funds doctoral dissertation research. The research uses laboratory experiments to investigate betrayal in social exchange environments. Specifically, the experiments identify the specific effects that aversion to betrayal has on decisions about whether to trust a trading partner. This is an advance on previous research, where the effects of betrayal aversion could not be separated from other factors such as altruism, risk preferences, and loss aversion that also affect trust decisions. A separate series of experiments examines whether the disutility caused by betrayal knowledge acts as a check on trustees' willingness to betray and whether trust and exchange breaks down when betrayal knowledge is absent. The final part of the project investigates the motives for betrayal.Trust and betrayal decisions are present in everyday economic exchanges. The experimental design developed in this project can be used in classrooms to help students understand how trust affects the way markets function.

该奖项资助博士论文研究。 该研究使用实验室实验来调查社会交换环境中的背叛。 具体来说，实验确定了厌恶背叛对是否信任贸易伙伴的决定的具体影响。 这是对以前研究的一个进步，在以前的研究中，背叛厌恶的影响不能与其他因素分开，如利他主义，风险偏好和损失厌恶，这些因素也会影响信任决策。 另一系列实验考察了背叛知识引起的负效用是否对受托人的背叛意愿起了检查作用，以及当背叛知识不存在时，信任和交换是否会破裂。 项目的最后一部分调查了背叛的动机。信任和背叛的决定存在于日常的经济交流中。 在这个项目中开发的实验设计可以在课堂上使用，以帮助学生了解信任如何影响市场的运作方式。