Trust and Reciprocity: Implications of Game Triads and Social Contexts,” unpublished manuscript

This paper explores a behavioral phenomenon that has not been included in models of social preferences: the effects of social context on trust, reciprocity, and altruism. An experiment is reported in which the social context varies from a “weak ” (or one task) to a “strong ” (or two task) social context. Use of the strong social context makes it possible to experiment with trust