Cultural Differences in Investing in Others and in the Future: Why Measuring Trust Is Not Enough

Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people’s willingness to invest in the futu...

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Autores principales: Boyer, Pascal, Lienard, Pierre, Xu, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040750
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description Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people’s willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results suggest that these measures capture deep differences in economic attitudes that are not detected by standard measures of generalized trust.
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spelling pubmed-34040992012-07-30 Cultural Differences in Investing in Others and in the Future: Why Measuring Trust Is Not Enough Boyer, Pascal Lienard, Pierre Xu, Jing PLoS One Research Article Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people’s willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results suggest that these measures capture deep differences in economic attitudes that are not detected by standard measures of generalized trust. Public Library of Science 2012-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3404099/ /pubmed/22848399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040750 Text en Boyer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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