Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

Trust is a key aspect of various social interactions. Correspondingly, trust has been heavily
studied across different scientific disciplines. However, an integration of the diverse research …

Robots are increasingly used in social applications, which raise challenges regarding
people's trust in robots. A modern conception of human-robot trust must go beyond the …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

A person's well-being depends heavily on forming and maintaining positive relationships,
but people can be reluctant to connect in ways that would create or strengthen relationships …

This article addresses generalized trust, a construct that is examined in various scientific
disciplines and assumed to be of central importance to understanding the functioning of …

Although trust plays a pivotal role in many aspects of life, very little is known about the
manifestation of trust and distrust in everyday life. In this work, we integrated several prior …

Existing trust research has disproportionately focused on what makes people more or less
trusting, and has largely ignored the question of what makes people more or less …

General trust constitutes a critical aspect of social capital that facilitates democratic
governance and economic prosperity of a society. Despite its theoretical importance …

Highlights•Studies with children and adults show that prosocial behavior is substantially
influenced by both descriptive and injunctive norms.•Norms facilitate cooperation by shaping …