To Trust or Not to Trust: The Role of Attention in Trust Decisions

Poster Session I

Keyword: Decision Making

Abstract: In a series of studies, participants’ attention was incidentally cued to one of two faces before deciding whom to trust in a partner choice game. We found that attention influenced trust decisions irrespective of facial characteristics, but attentional effects were weakened with distrust framing and strengthened with ingroup membership.

• Lynneatte Quenin (Presenting Author)
• Leaf Van Boven (Author)
• Eric Pedersen (Author)
• Marrissa Grant (Author)