Note: This workshop was jointly held with Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Experimental Social Sciences” and Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University.

Date: November 29, 2008 (Saturday) 9:00-17:00, November 30, 2008 (Sunday) 9:00-16:00

Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204

Participants: James Liu (Victoria University of Wellington), Yicheng Lin (National Taiwan University), Feixue Wang (Sun Yat-sen University), Toshio Yamagishi, Chisato Takahashi, Joanna Schug (Hokkaido University)

Contents: To investigate trust behavior toward people from different countries, two cross-societal trust experiments have been conducted in Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese experimental laboratory. In this workshop, experimenters from each country are invited to discuss about the results. The discussion enables them to develop ideas for future experiments.