#  "What Does the Trust Game Measure?": New publication by Civil Discourse Fellow Jason D'Cruz  

 





October 09, 2025

 

 

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Professor [Jason D'Cruz](https://www.ethics.harvard.edu/people/jason-dcruz), a current Civil Discourse Fellow at the ELSCE, recently published an article titled "What Does the Trust Game Measure?" in the *Journal of Business Ethics*. The article challenges the standard interpretation of the Trust Game, the dominant experimental paradigm for the study of trust and trustworthiness in social science research.

[Read the article here.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-025-06117-3)