The sophisticated human capacity for trust is our crowning evolutionary achievement that makes social life and long-lasting relationships and institutions possible. This cutting-edge volume provides a comprehensive overview of the psychology of trust, featuring leading international researchers who have done ground-breaking work on the origins, nature, characteristics and consequences of trust.
The chapters examine the evolutionary, historical, social, cultural and psychological origins of trust. The role of cognitive, motivational and affective processes influencing trust are discussed, and the current crisis of trust in Western liberal democracies receives special attention, representing a serious challenge to the survival of liberal democratic societies built on the enlightenment values of rationalism, individualism, humanism, and tolerance.
Exploring one of the most intriguing psychological issues that shapes human social life, this book will be of interest both to a lay audience, as well as students and researchers interested in all areas relevant to the relationship between human psychology and the social and cultural processes that define our civilization.
This cutting-edge volume provides a comprehensive overview of the psychology of trust, featuring leading international researchers who have done ground-breaking work on the origins, nature, characteristics and consequences of trust.
Contents
PART
1. ORIGINS, FUNCTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF TRUST
Chapter
1. The psychology of trust: Origins, functions and consequences.
Joseph P.Forgas (University of New South Wales).
Chapter
2. Trust, its origins, and the tethered mind.
Vinod Goel (York University, Canada).
Chapter
3. Trust versus rationality.
David Dunning (University of Michigan), Thomas Schlösser (South Westphalia
University) and Detlef Fetchenhauer (University of Cologne).
Chapter
4. Do Conceptualizations and Measures of Trust Reflect a WEIRD Bias?
Ying Lin (Hong Kong University) and Michele Gelfand (Stanford University).
PART
2. COGNITIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCES ON TRUST
Chapter
5. Heuristic trust.
Joachim I. Krueger (Brown University), A. M. Evans (Allstate Corporation) and
B. Aizenberg B. (Brown University).
Chapter
6. What can game-theoretical experiments tell us about trust?
Klaus Fiedler, (Heidelberg University).
Chapter
7. Trust and Contested Beliefs: The Role of Actively Open-Minded
Thinking
Stanovich, Keith (University of Toronto) and Maggie E. Toplak (York
University)
Chapter
8. Affective influences on trust-related judgments and decisions.
Forgas, Joseph Paul (University of New South Wales, Australia).
PART
3. TRUST IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter
9. The Development of Romantic Trust
Lorne Campbell & Omar Camanto (University of Western Ontario)
Chapter
10. Conceptualising trust in the context of close relationships.
Rempel, John K. (St Jerome University, Canada).
Chapter
11. An Attachment Perspective on trust and compliance: Secure and
insecure forms of compliance towards partners and governmental institutions
Mario Mikulincer (Hebrew University), Shir Zur (Baruch Iver School of
Psychology) and Philip R Shaver (University of California)
Chapter
12. Trust as a personal resource A Mathew effect of believing in
the well-meaning of others.
Detlef Fetchenhauer (University of Cologne), David Dunning (University of
Michigan), Paschalia Georgantsi, Thomasz Graczyk & Thomas Schlösser (South
Westphalia University of Applied Sciences)
PART
4. TRUST IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Chapter
13. Social Identity, Depersonalized Trust, and Social Cohesion
Marilynn B. Brewer (University of California)
Chapter
14. The Demise of Trust: Trustworthiness, the Internet, and
self-deception
William D. Crano and Tehreem Riffat (Claremont Graduate University).
Chapter
15. The Disruption of Trust: The Digital Erosion of Civic Norms
Danit Finkelstein, Lee Jussim, Sonia Yanovsky, Dulberg Z. Fihrer, and Joel
Finkelstein (Rutgers University, and Network Contagion Research Institute).
Chapter
16. On the interplay of (dis)trust, conspiracy beliefs, and populism:
Fueling political divides
Joseph P. Forgas is the Scientia Professor of Social Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research has focussed on the influence of cognitive and emotional factors on social behaviour and judgments. He has published more than 30 books, and over 300 articles and book chapters and he is a frequent contributor to media and online publications on the role of social psychology in understanding contemporary social and political issues. He was awarded the Order of Australia in recognition for his scientific and social contribution, and also received the APS Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (Germany) and a Rockefeller Fellowship.
