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The Dynamics of Trust from the Perspective of a Trust Game

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Complex Human Dynamics

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Abstract

Trust is an essential feature in the majority of everyday social activities. Trust is not static but dynamic; it changes over time, manifesting itself differently in different situations and with different behaviors of others. Many of these changes can be captured in experimental settings based on a ‘trust game,’ coming from game theory. This game enables us to explore the consequences of various experimental manipulations of the many different variables that affect the degree of trust. However the mechanisms captured by the trust game have not yet been described from a dynamic systems perspective. In this chapter this deficiency is rectified.

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Notes

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    Albert Einstein was somehow more successful in finding inevitable things in our reality claiming that “two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity” although he was not certain about the universe.

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    In hierarchical organizations a similar notion of control is used. Here yet another interesting mental process takes place, not at the top where the power is concentrated, but at lower levels where the power is executed. It manifests itself as a comforting thought that someone else makes the decisions and takes the responsibility for us. Shifting responsibility is a common practice that hinders the growth of many organizations.

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    The indicator of trust depended on how many times the trustor showed trust and sent money to the trustee. The indicator of trustworthiness depended on how many times the trustee honored trust and returned money to trustor when they had a chance to do so.

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  1. Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, Warsaw, 00183, Poland

    Magda Roszczynska-Kurasinska & Marta Kacprzyk

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, Warsaw, 00183, Poland

    Andrzej Nowak

  2. Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Hum, Chodakowska Street 19/13, Warsaw, 03815, Poland

    Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak

  3. Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, Warsaw, 00183, Poland

    David Brée

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Roszczynska-Kurasinska, M., Kacprzyk, M. (2013). The Dynamics of Trust from the Perspective of a Trust Game. In: Nowak, A., Winkowska-Nowak, K., Brée, D. (eds) Complex Human Dynamics. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31436-0_11

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