Resumen de Conduct in Narrativized Trust Games

Jan Osborn, Bart J. Wilson, Bradley R. Sherwood

• We "narrativize" a basic extensive form trust game by placing participants in a story that contextualizes the interaction with an unforeseeable future. In our narrative experiment, participants consider each decision as a character, advancing the story with their choices for salient payoffs. Our interest is in understanding how participants apply Adam Smith s rules of beneficent and just conduct in our narrativized games with epistemic conditions of an unknown future, conditions which aren t possible in extensive form. We invite our readers to participate in the story of the results, making meaning as participants in a narrative that unfolds with their choices.