RT Journal Article
T1 Personal trust increases cooperation beyond general trust.
A1 Acedo-Carmona, Cristina
A1 Gomila Benejam, Antoni
K1 Cooperación (Psicología)
K1 Confianza - Aspectos sociales
K1 Psicología social
AB In this paper we present a new methodology which, while allowing for anonymous interaction, it also makes possible to compare decisions of cooperating or defecting when playing games within a group, according to whether or not players personally trust each other. The design thus goes beyond standard approaches to the role of trust in fostering cooperation, which is restricted to general trust. It also allows considering the role of the topology of the social network involved may play in the level of cooperation found. The results of this work support the idea that personal trust promotes cooperation beyond the level of general trust. We also found that this effect carries over to the whole group, making it more cohesive, but that higher levels of cohesion rely on a particular topology. As a conclusion, we hypothesize that personal trust is a psychological mechanism evolved to make human social life possible in the small groups our ancestors lived in, and that this mechanism persists and plays a role in sustaining cooperation and social cohesion.
PB PLOS
YR 2014
FD 2014-08-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37914
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37914
LA eng
NO Acedo-Carmona, C. y Gomila, A. Personal trust increases cooperation beyond general trust. PLoS ONE, 9, 8, e105559, pp. 1-10, ISSN: 1932-6203.
NO Proyecto “Evolució i cognició humana (EvoCog)”, nº 17/2011, financiado por la Conselleria d'Innovació, Interior i Justícia de las Islas Baleares. Proyecto “La naturaleza moral y estética humana”, nº FFI2010-20759, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.Proyecto “Las bases intersubjetivas de la moralidad humana”, nº FFI2013-44007-P, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.Beca FPU-Formación del Profesorado Universitario, nº AP2009-3369, financiada por el Ministerio de Educación de España.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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