The individual willingness to trust is compared to the inclination to take lottery risk in six distinct scenarios, controlling the return distributions. Trust responds to changes in the admissible return levels, but exhibits significantly smaller responsiveness to return expectations compared to parallel risk-taking. Paired comparisons suggest that the investors sacrifice 5% of the expected payoff to trust anonymous responders. Trust is more calculated and volatile for males, while appearing relatively stable for females. The results connect with evidence regarding physiological differences between trust and risk-taking, and in addition suggest that trust is more of a distinctive trait for females compared to males. The paper broadly discusses the results and their implications, connecting to diverse streams in the trust literature.

将个人的信任意愿与在六种不同情况下承担彩票风险的倾向进行比较，控制回报分布。信任会对允许回报水平的变化做出反应，但与平行冒险相比，对回报预期的反应要小得多。配对比较表明，投资者牺牲 5% 的预期收益来信任匿名回复者。对于男性来说，信任更加刻意且不稳定，而对于女性来说，信任则显得相对稳定。研究结果与信任和冒险之间生理差异的证据相关，此外还表明，与男性相比，信任更多地是女性的独特特征。本文广泛讨论了结果及其含义，并与信任文献中的不同流派联系起来。