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Distrust as a form of inequality
Navigating social hierarchies is a ubiquitous aspect of human life. Social status shapes our thoughts, feelings, and actions toward others in various ways. However, it remains unclear how trust is conferred within hierarchies and how status-related cues are used when resources are on the line. This...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10279663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36948-x |
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author | Kubota, Jennifer T. Venezia, Samuel A. Gautam, Richa Wilhelm, Andrea L. Mattan, Bradley D. Cloutier, Jasmin |
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description | Navigating social hierarchies is a ubiquitous aspect of human life. Social status shapes our thoughts, feelings, and actions toward others in various ways. However, it remains unclear how trust is conferred within hierarchies and how status-related cues are used when resources are on the line. This research fills this knowledge gap by examining how ascribed, consensus-based status appearance, and perceived status appearance impact investment decisions for high- and low-status partners during a Trust Game. In a series of pre-registered experiments, we examined the degree to which participants trusted unfamiliar others with financial investments when the only available information about that person was their socioeconomic status (SES). In Study 1, SES was ascribed. Studies 2 and 3 conveyed SES with visual antecedents (clothing). Across all three experiments, participants trusted high SES partners more than low SES partners. In addition, subjective perceptions of status based on visual cues were a stronger predictor of trust than consensus-based status judgments. This work highlights a high status-trust bias for decisions where an individual’s money is on the line. In addition, high-status trust bias may occur simply because of an individual’s subjective assumptions about another’s rank. |
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spelling | pubmed-102796632023-06-21 Distrust as a form of inequality Kubota, Jennifer T. Venezia, Samuel A. Gautam, Richa Wilhelm, Andrea L. Mattan, Bradley D. Cloutier, Jasmin Sci Rep Article Navigating social hierarchies is a ubiquitous aspect of human life. Social status shapes our thoughts, feelings, and actions toward others in various ways. However, it remains unclear how trust is conferred within hierarchies and how status-related cues are used when resources are on the line. This research fills this knowledge gap by examining how ascribed, consensus-based status appearance, and perceived status appearance impact investment decisions for high- and low-status partners during a Trust Game. In a series of pre-registered experiments, we examined the degree to which participants trusted unfamiliar others with financial investments when the only available information about that person was their socioeconomic status (SES). In Study 1, SES was ascribed. Studies 2 and 3 conveyed SES with visual antecedents (clothing). Across all three experiments, participants trusted high SES partners more than low SES partners. In addition, subjective perceptions of status based on visual cues were a stronger predictor of trust than consensus-based status judgments. This work highlights a high status-trust bias for decisions where an individual’s money is on the line. In addition, high-status trust bias may occur simply because of an individual’s subjective assumptions about another’s rank. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10279663/ /pubmed/37337115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36948-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Kubota, Jennifer T. Venezia, Samuel A. Gautam, Richa Wilhelm, Andrea L. Mattan, Bradley D. Cloutier, Jasmin Distrust as a form of inequality |
title | Distrust as a form of inequality |
title_full | Distrust as a form of inequality |
title_fullStr | Distrust as a form of inequality |
title_full_unstemmed | Distrust as a form of inequality |
title_short | Distrust as a form of inequality |
title_sort | distrust as a form of inequality |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10279663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36948-x |
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