Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding Trust through Higher-Order Beliefs

博士论文研究：通过高阶信念理解信任

• 批准号: 1260891
• 负责人: Guillaume Frechette
• 金额: $ 0.86万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Understanding; Trust

This award funds a series of decision making experiments that will test a specific theory about the sources of trust in economic relationships. The coPI has contributed to recent research that uses game theory to examine whether trust is a rational decision. He has developed a theory in which a person who is deciding whether or not to trust an economic partner considers whether or not the partner cares about being considered trustworthy. The result is a new binary trust game that can be used to investigate whether and how controlled variations in participants' higher order beliefs may affect their decisions. A key innovation of the design is the introduction of a random move between the two participants' nodes which affects the interpretation of the Sender's decision to invest as a pure act of trust. Controlled lab experiments are used to test whether or not the Sender is more likely to invest when his/her decision is more easily interpretable as a sign of trust.This research contributes to our understanding of the behavioral sources of trust in economic relationships. Because trust between trading partners is key in many economic situations, understanding how to foster appropriate trust is likely to result in broader impact. These impacts will come as market designers employ the new insights to encourage individuals to make investments.

该奖项为一系列决策实验提供了资金，该实验将测试有关经济关系信任来源的特定理论。 COPI促进了最新的研究，该研究使用游戏理论来检查信任是否是理性的决定。 他开发了一种理论，其中一个决定是否信任经济伙伴是否认为伴侣是否在乎被视为值得信赖的人。 结果是一种新的二进制信任游戏，可用于研究参与者高阶信念的控制变化以及如何影响他们的决策。 设计的关键创新是在两个参与者的节点之间引入随机移动，这影响了发件人决定投资为纯粹的信任行为的解释。 当对照实验室实验更容易解释为信任的标志时，使用受控实验室实验来测试发件人是否更有可能进行投资。这项研究有助于我们理解经济关系中信任的行为来源。 由于贸易伙伴之间的信任是许多经济情况下的关键，因此了解如何培养适当的信任可能会导致更大的影响。 当市场设计师采用新见解来鼓励个人进行投资时，这些影响将产生。