Studying the Robustness of the Triadic Trust Design with Mechanical Turk Subjects
23 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2018 Last revised: 1 Jul 2018
Date Written: March 9, 2017
Abstract
This paper uses subjects recruited from an online employment exchange to study the robustness of the triadic trust design with a different subject pool. In running our experiments we tried to take advantage of the cost reducing features of the micro-employment culture found on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. We find that first mover trust is robust to the change in subject pool, but second mover reciprocity was not.
Keywords: Trust, Reciprocity, Dictator Giving, Mechanical Turk, Triadic Trust Design
JEL Classification: C99, D31, D64
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Mayo, Robert and McCabe, Kevin A. and Krueger, Frank, Studying the Robustness of the Triadic Trust Design with Mechanical Turk Subjects (March 9, 2017). GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3193213 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3193213
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