APS

2025 APS Annual Convention

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

Sunday, May 25, 2025 · Washington, DC

Submitted Talk · Sunday, May 25, 2025 · 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM ET

Subject Area: Social

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.

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