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Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust
Social trust and income are associated both within and across countries, such that higher income typically correlates with increased trust. While this correlation is well-documented, the psychological mechanisms sustaining this relationship remain poorly understood. One plausible candidate is people...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8220284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34168889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202104 |
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author | Guillou, Léonard Grandin, Aurore Chevallier, Coralie |
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description | Social trust and income are associated both within and across countries, such that higher income typically correlates with increased trust. While this correlation is well-documented, the psychological mechanisms sustaining this relationship remain poorly understood. One plausible candidate is people’s temporal discounting: on the one hand, trust has a strong time component—it exposes the individual to immediate costs in exchange of uncertain and delayed benefits; on the other hand, temporal discounting is robustly influenced by income. The goal of our studies was to test whether temporal discounting mediates the relationship between income and trust and whether experimentally manipulating perceived income has a downstream impact on temporal discounting and trust. To do so, participants who underestimated their relative income position received information about their true position in the income distribution in order to correct their misperception. Our results indicate that temporal discounting partially mediates the effect of income on social trust in a pre-registered online study on British participants (N = 855). However, receiving a positive information shock on one’s income position had no impact on either temporal discounting or social trust. In a second pre-registered study, we replicated the finding that temporal discounting partially mediates the effect of income on social trust in a representative sample of the British population (N = 1130). |
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spelling | pubmed-82202842021-06-23 Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust Guillou, Léonard Grandin, Aurore Chevallier, Coralie R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Social trust and income are associated both within and across countries, such that higher income typically correlates with increased trust. While this correlation is well-documented, the psychological mechanisms sustaining this relationship remain poorly understood. One plausible candidate is people’s temporal discounting: on the one hand, trust has a strong time component—it exposes the individual to immediate costs in exchange of uncertain and delayed benefits; on the other hand, temporal discounting is robustly influenced by income. The goal of our studies was to test whether temporal discounting mediates the relationship between income and trust and whether experimentally manipulating perceived income has a downstream impact on temporal discounting and trust. To do so, participants who underestimated their relative income position received information about their true position in the income distribution in order to correct their misperception. Our results indicate that temporal discounting partially mediates the effect of income on social trust in a pre-registered online study on British participants (N = 855). However, receiving a positive information shock on one’s income position had no impact on either temporal discounting or social trust. In a second pre-registered study, we replicated the finding that temporal discounting partially mediates the effect of income on social trust in a representative sample of the British population (N = 1130). The Royal Society 2021-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8220284/ /pubmed/34168889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202104 Text en © 2021 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Guillou, Léonard Grandin, Aurore Chevallier, Coralie Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title | Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title_full | Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title_fullStr | Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title_full_unstemmed | Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title_short | Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
title_sort | temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust |
topic | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8220284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34168889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202104 |
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