ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
How Third-Party Relationship Knowledge Shapes Trust
- Miriam Weaverdyck
University of California, Los Angeles - Meng Du
University of California, Los Angeles - Yuchen Li
University of California, Los Angeles - Luke Chang
Dartmouth College - Carolyn Parkinson
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
How does social relationship knowledge shape trust? Here, participants played repeated trust games with members of a fictive online community. Results indicated that knowledge of the company that others keep both biases initial judgments of strangers’ trustworthiness and shapes how we learn about others’ trustworthiness from direct experience.
Social Cognition
