The Association Between the Level of General Trust and the Judgment Accuracy of Group Members’ Cooperation in a Social Dilemma

Hashimoto, Hirofumi; Maeda, Kaede; Tomida, Sayaka; Tanida, Shigehito

doi:10.5178/lebs.2020.77

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“…They argue that whereas social trust can resolve uncertainty in social interaction, it does not mean that high trustors are gullible. Rather, high trustors are more attuned to social information (Hashimoto et al 2020;Yamagishi 2011). If there are signals that their own cooperation will go unreciprocated by an interaction partner, high trustors will behave less cooperatively than they may prefer (Yamagishi et al 2015).…”

Section: Cultural Trust and Its Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Cultural Trust on Cooperation in Two Behavioral Experiments

Doyle

2021

Soc Psychol Q

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Trust is an important factor for cooperation in social dilemmas because of uncertainty and free-riding fears. Many contemporary social problems are characterized by uncertainty because they depend on the cooperation of thousands to resolve. Social trust as a personal belief is necessary but not sufficient for cooperation under these conditions. In contemporary social dilemmas, the trust-cooperation relationship likely depends on cultural trust: what people believe most other people believe about the trustworthiness of people in general. I test this theory in two experimental studies. In the first, cultural trust has an effect on cooperation independent of participants’ first-order social trust. In the second, I find that if participants learn that others expect them to not believe information on the trustfulness of most other people, they will behave more or less cooperatively, depending on whether the information indicates most others’ trust is high or low. I end with a discussion of the implications my findings have for addressing social dilemmas in an era of declining social trust.

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Section: Cultural Trust and Its Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Cultural Trust on Cooperation in Two Behavioral Experiments

Doyle

2021

Soc Psychol Q

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“…In fact, generalized trust increases the possibility to detect others' trustworthiness from nonverbal cues (Bonnefon et al, 2013). This detection ability has its roots in the brain function related to mindreading (Watabe et al, 2011) and is also effective in facilitating cooperation in everyday social situations (Hashimoto et al, 2020). In a social network, generalized trust works as a significant psychological characteristic enabling one to actively create new social relationships with strangers beyond existing relationships.…”

Section: Introduction Emancipation Theory Of Trustmentioning

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Generalized Trust and Social Selection Process

Igarashi

Hirashima

2021

Front. Commun.

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Generalized trust relieves individuals in a socially uncertain situation from dyadic constraints of existing ties and helps them change ties with other individuals to acquire better resources. However, much evidence in the emancipation role of generalized trust as a booster of new relationship formation has been limited to laboratory experiments or cross-sectional surveys. We conducted a four-wave longitudinal survey to test whether individuals high in generalized trust actively switch ties and form open triads in dynamic social networks. Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models were employed to analyze structural changes in advice and personal discussion networks among first-year undergraduates. Results showed the predicted patterns of social selection processes based on generalized trust when the dynamics of the two networks were analyzed simultaneously: only in the advice network, individuals high in generalized trust tended to terminate existing ties, create new ties, and show a decreasing trend toward forming close triads when the degree of local clustering was large. Effective tie-formation strategies of individuals high in generalized trust in a multiplex network structure are discussed.

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“…This extends previous literature on perceived trustworthiness (Stirrat and Perrett, 2010;Rezlescu et al, 2012;Bonnefon et al, 2013Bonnefon et al, , 2017De Neys et al, 2015), as well as the influence of personality on trust decisions (Ben-Ner and Halldorsson, 2010;Müller and Schwieren, 2012), as it highlights the potential importance of interactions of players traits. Hashimoto and colleagues discussed that individuals with low levels of dispositional trust aim to protect themselves from possible exploitation and are therefore highly suspicious of interaction partners (Hashimoto et al, 2020). Our results suggest that these individuals may benefit from others whom they perceive as particularly agreeable.…”

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“…According to the emancipation theory of trust (Yamagishi, 2011), high levels of trust encourage individuals to form new relationships with others. Having high trust enables a person to recognize the trustworthiness of others (Hashimoto et al, 2020), but also to detect lies (Carter and Weber, 2010). For example, high trusting individuals were more skilled at predicting who had made a cooperative choice in a prisoner's dilemma after a brief face-to-face interaction (Kikuchi et al, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

In Your Face(t)—Personality Traits Interact With Prototypical Personality Faces in Economic Decision Making

2021

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In everyday life, assumptions about our peers' as well as our own personality shape social interactions. We investigated whether self-rated personality and inferences drawn from partners' faces influence economic decisions. Participants (N = 285) played the trust game in the role of the trustor as well as the ultimatum game in the role of the proposer and interacted with trustees and receivers represented by prototypical personality faces. Participants also evaluated both their own traits and the personality of the faces. In the trust game, trustees represented by faces rated higher on agreeableness yielded higher transferred amounts. This effect was more pronounced for trustors low on dispositional trust, whereas trustors high on dispositional trust did not relate their decisions to the faces. Trustees represented by faces rated higher on conscientiousness yielded higher transferred amounts only for trustors high on dispositional anxiety. In the ultimatum game, receivers represented by faces rated higher on conscientiousness yielded lower offers only for proposers high on dispositional assertiveness. These results extend previous findings on the inferences drawn from facial features and the influence of personality on decision making. They highlight the importance of considering the personality of both interaction partner, as well as potential interactions of players' traits.

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The Association Between the Level of General Trust and the Judgment Accuracy of Group Members’ Cooperation in a Social Dilemma

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

The Effect of Cultural Trust on Cooperation in Two Behavioral Experiments

The Effect of Cultural Trust on Cooperation in Two Behavioral Experiments

Generalized Trust and Social Selection Process

In Your Face(t)—Personality Traits Interact With Prototypical Personality Faces in Economic Decision Making

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