A study of dynamic information display and decision-making in abstract trust games.

•Dynamic user interfaces can influence human cooperative behavior in trust games.•UI and information availability were manipulated in a user study of the Diner’s Dilemma.•Overall, user cooperation and situation awareness increased with information availability.•Users were more likely to retaliate against defection than they were to initiate defection.•A user interface has different effects on human behavior based on co-actor exploitation.