Trust is a double‐edged sword. When warranted, it leads to positive and rewarding
interactions. When not, it leads to disappointment and anger. Therefore, it has been argued …

Are decisions in a trust game more or less sensitive to changes in risk than decisions in a
purely financial, non-social decision-making task? Participants in a binary trust game (they …

Despite much research on the determinants of trust among strangers, its mechanisms are
understood only rudimentarily. Recently, it has been proposed that people trust strangers …

Trustful and trustworthy behaviors have important externalities for the society. But what
exactly drives people to behave in a trustful and trustworthy manner? Building on research …

Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and
philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to …

We review research suggesting that decisions to trust strangers may not depend on
economic dynamics as much as emotional and social ones. Classic treatments of trust …

Trust is essential to personal well-being and economic success, but it cannot occur without
accepting the possibility of betrayal. In the experimental trust game, game-theoretic …

Betrayal–aversion is the observation that decision-makers in a trust situation are more
averse to uncertainty when it derives from the unknown behavior of others than when it …

Trusting another person may depend on our level of generalised trust in others, as well as
perceptions of that specific person's trustworthiness. However, many studies measuring trust …

Previous literature has demonstrated the important role that trust plays in developing and
maintaining well-functioning societies. However, if we are to learn how to increase levels of …