Trust responsiveness and beliefs [An article from: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization]

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Trust responsiveness is ''a tendency to fulfil trust because you believe that it has been placed on you'' [Is trust self-fulfilling? An experimental study. Discussion Paper no. 76 (October), Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2001]. We use two simple trust games to measure directly or indirectly the robustness of trust responsiveness in three conditions: when beliefs are elicited and a summary of these beliefs is transmitted, when beliefs are elicited but not transmitted, when beliefs are not elicited. Insofar as we can tell, trust responsiveness is robust to our belief manipulations, strengthening the case for the real-world significance of trust responsiveness.