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How trust games measure the price of betrayal

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Researchers have boiled down human treachery to a precise decimal point. In these laboratory setups, an investor is given a starting stake and can transfer some to a trustee, where it miraculously multiplies. The trustee then decides whether to return a fair share or run away with the multiplied pile. It brilliantly maps exactly how much leverage it takes for average people to completely abandon their morals.

How trust games measure the price of betrayal
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