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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| author | Roberta eSellaro Bernhard eHommel Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet Lorenza S Colzato |
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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 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 participant (the trustee). As expected, participants transferred significantly more money to the trustee 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 | doaj.art-c4c4951112ad4777890386c9df68bc4e2022-12-21T20:03:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-06-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.0056189002Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinkingRoberta eSellaro0Bernhard eHommel1Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet2Lorenza S Colzato3Leiden UniversityLeiden UniversityLeiden UniversityLeiden UniversityInterpersonal 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 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 participant (the trustee). As expected, participants transferred significantly more money to the trustee 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.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00561/fullcognitive controldivergent thinkingConvergent Thinkinginterpersonal trustControl-state |
| spellingShingle | Roberta eSellaro Bernhard eHommel Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet Lorenza S Colzato Increasing interpersonal trust through divergent thinking Frontiers in Psychology cognitive control divergent thinking Convergent Thinking interpersonal trust Control-state |
| 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 | cognitive control divergent thinking Convergent Thinking interpersonal trust Control-state |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00561/full |
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