@techreport{NBERw15654, title = "Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game", author = "Nicole M. Baran and Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "15654", year = "2010", month = "January", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15654", abstract = {We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a desire to conform to social norms distorts results in the lab, yet we do find evidence that it affects results in the field.}, }