Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues.

We invited "residents" of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to "in-world" wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both a p...

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Published in:	Southern Economic Journal Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 63 - 87
Main Authors:	Atlas, Stephen, Putterman, Louis
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2011
Subjects:	Virtual reality Students Avatars (Virtual reality) Shared virtual environments Experiments Regression analysis
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