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URL: https://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.17504/protocols.io.bf54jq8w

Authors: J Jobu Babin

Summary: This paper reports the results of an experiment involving text-messaging and emojis in laboratory trust games executed on mobile devices. Decomposing chat logs, I find that trust increases dramatically with the introduction of emojis to one-shot games, while reciprocation increases only modestly. Skin tones embeddedin emojis impact sharing and resulting gains – to the benefit of some anddetriment to others. Both light and dark skin players trust less on receipt of a dark skin tone emoji – suggestive of statistical discrimination. In this way, computer-mediated communication leads to reduced gains for dark-skinned persons. These results highlight the complex social judgment that motivates trust in an anonymous counterpart.

Affiliations: Western Illinois University

Version: 2

Publication Date: 2020

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