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Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking
Interpersonal trust is an essential ingredient of many social relationships but how stable is it actually, and how is it controlled? There is evidence that the degree of trust into others might be rather volatile and can be affected by manipulations like drawing attention to personal interdependence...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24936194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00561 |
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author | Sellaro, Roberta Hommel, Bernhard de Kwaadsteniet, Erik W. van de Groep, Suzanne Colzato, Lorenza S. |
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description | Interpersonal trust is an essential ingredient of many social relationships but how stable is it actually, and how is it controlled? There is evidence that the degree of trust into others might be rather volatile and can be affected by manipulations like drawing attention to personal interdependence or independence. Here we investigated whether the degree of interpersonal trust can be biased by inducing either a more integrative or a more focused/exclusive cognitive control mode by means of a creativity task requiring divergent or convergent thinking, respectively. Participants then performed the trust game, which provides an index of interpersonal trust by assessing the money units one participant (the trustor) transfers to another (the trustee). As expected, trustors transferred significantly more money to trustees after engaging in divergent thinking as compared to convergent thinking. This observation provides support for the idea that interpersonal trust is controlled by domain-general (i.e., not socially dedicated) cognitive states. |
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spelling | pubmed-40477102014-06-16 Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking Sellaro, Roberta Hommel, Bernhard de Kwaadsteniet, Erik W. van de Groep, Suzanne Colzato, Lorenza S. Front Psychol Psychology Interpersonal trust is an essential ingredient of many social relationships but how stable is it actually, and how is it controlled? There is evidence that the degree of trust into others might be rather volatile and can be affected by manipulations like drawing attention to personal interdependence or independence. Here we investigated whether the degree of interpersonal trust can be biased by inducing either a more integrative or a more focused/exclusive cognitive control mode by means of a creativity task requiring divergent or convergent thinking, respectively. Participants then performed the trust game, which provides an index of interpersonal trust by assessing the money units one participant (the trustor) transfers to another (the trustee). As expected, trustors transferred significantly more money to trustees after engaging in divergent thinking as compared to convergent thinking. This observation provides support for the idea that interpersonal trust is controlled by domain-general (i.e., not socially dedicated) cognitive states. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4047710/ /pubmed/24936194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00561 Text en Copyright © 2014 Sellaro, Hommel, de Kwaadsteniet, van de Groep and Colzato. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Sellaro, Roberta Hommel, Bernhard de Kwaadsteniet, Erik W. van de Groep, Suzanne Colzato, Lorenza S. Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title | Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title_full | Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title_fullStr | Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title_full_unstemmed | Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title_short | Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
title_sort | increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24936194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00561 |
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