Group-based trust, trustworthiness and voluntary cooperation: Evidence from experimental and survey data in China

Qin, Xiangdong; Shen, Junyi; Meng, Xindan

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.04.007

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“…() and Qin et al . (), we find that cooperative behaviour positively affects trusting behaviour. Separating trust from cooperation like in our experiment is especially useful in the stage of trust building.…”

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confidence: 49%

“…Fourth, the result that risk preference has a positive impact on trustworthiness but not trust is the opposite of the findings reported in Schechter () and Qin et al . () that risk attitudes were highly predictive of trusting behaviour in the trust game. In our view, the benefit of running both the trust game and a gambling game with similar payoff structure is that, in theory, the only difference between the players' moves in the two games should be due to differences in their assessments of payoffs from the random gamble and from trusting their counterparts.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Therefore, as Qin et al . () note, to boost voluntary investments in public goods, it is important that policy‐makers create an atmosphere in which trustful individuals can obtain reasonable reward and recognition.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Qin et al . () conducted a series of laboratory and artefactual field experiments to evaluate the level of trust, trustworthiness and cooperation in Shanghai. The groups selected for the study were middle school students, undergraduate university students and community residents.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Cooperation, Trust and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China

Shen

Qin

2014

Pacific Economic Review

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Many previous empirical studies have suggested that cooperation and trust affect economic growth. However, the precise relationship between trust and cooperation (i.e. whether trust leads to cooperation or cooperation leads to trust) remains unclear and it is not known how the level of economic development affects the level of cooperation and trust. Using a combination of public goods, gambling game and trust game experiments, we investigate the links among cooperation, trust and economic development in four regions of China. Our results suggest that, first, there is a U‐shaped or V‐shaped relationship between cooperation and economic development. Second, on the one hand, cooperation leads to trust, and on the other hand, more cooperative behaviour may be created by rewarding trusting behaviour. Third, men are more cooperative and trusting than women. Furthermore, we find that the widely used ‘GSS trust’ question from the General Social Survey (GSS) does not predict either cooperation or trust, whereas the questions ‘GSS fair’ and ‘GSS help’ have weak predictive power for trusting behaviour but not for cooperative behaviour.

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Cooperation, Trust and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China

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2014

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“…Fetchenhauer and Dunning ( 2012 ) argued that varying the chance of repayment for trust could test the notion that trust behavior is not about risk-taking and added compelling evidence to previous results. In contrast, Schechter ( 2007 ) and Qin et al ( 2011 ) found that behavior in the trust game is related to the actual risk-taking of participants in a non-social setting, but both of these authors measured the participants' risk preferences with dice rolling rather than measuring risk-taking behavior in a risk game that mimics the form of the trust game.…”

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Enhancing the Activity of the DLPFC with tDCS Alters Risk Preference without Changing Interpersonal Trust

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Wang

Guo

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Front. Neurosci.

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Interpersonal trust plays an essential role in economic interactions and social development. Extensive behavioral experiments have examined the nature of trust, particularly the question of whether trusting decisions are connected to risk preferences or risk attitudes. Various laboratory observations have been reported regarding the difference between trust and risk, and neural imaging studies have demonstrated that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) is more activated when individuals decide to trust other human beings compared with individuals decide to invest in a non-social risk condition. Moreover, the rDLPFC has been found to exhibit an intimate relationship with risk preference in previous neuroscience studies. However, the causal relationship between the rDLPFC and trust has rarely been revealed. Whether modulating the excitability of the rDLPFC, which shares roles in both trust and risk decisions, alters the trust or risk preference of participants remains unknown. In the present study, we aimed to provide evidence of a direct link between the neural and behavioral results through the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the rDLPFC. We found that activating the rDLPFC altered the risk preferences of our participants, whereas no such significant effect over interpersonal trust was observed. Our findings indicate that enhancing the excitability of the rDLPFC using tDCS leads to more conservative decision-makings in a risk game, and this effect is specific to non-social risk rather than social-related trust.

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Hukou identity and trust—Evidence from a framed field experiment in China

Luo

Wang

2020

China Economic Review

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Group-based trust, trustworthiness and voluntary cooperation: Evidence from experimental and survey data in China

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Cooperation, Trust and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China

Cooperation, Trust and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China

Enhancing the Activity of the DLPFC with tDCS Alters Risk Preference without Changing Interpersonal Trust

Hukou identity and trust—Evidence from a framed field experiment in China

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