Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2010.
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| author | Pao, Sheng-Ying (Sheng-Ying Aithne) |
| author2 | Deb K Roy. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/580012019-04-13T00:06:58Z Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust Pao, Sheng-Ying (Sheng-Ying Aithne) Deb K Roy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references. Economic views of trust, grounded in repeated game theory and behavioral economics experiments, largely ignore social factors such as personal relationships between subjects. In this study, we designed a new experimental procedure, the "Social Lending Game", in which aspects of trust are measured as a function of differing social contexts. The procedure harnesses real-world social relationships while keeping subjects' identities confidential. We developed relationship mining methods that categorize social connections into trustful ties, distrustful ties, and neutral ties. Subjects in the Social Lending Game were led to believe they were paired up with a stranger with real social connections to them. The perceived social connections were systematically manipulated to different types and strengths of social ties to measure the effect of social perception on trusting behavior. Surprisingly, we found that people trust strangers as much as they trust a friend's friend. In contrast, people distrust strangers when they are told that there exists no social connection to the strangers. These methods and results point to a number of future research topics that leverage social networks to reinvestigate utility theory, trust-based decisions and risk-taking behaviors in social contexts. by Sheng-Ying Pao. S.M. 2010-09-01T13:45:21Z 2010-09-01T13:45:21Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58001 656285434 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 ca. [138] p. in various pagings (some unnumbered) application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Pao, Sheng-Ying (Sheng-Ying Aithne) Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
| title | Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
| title_full | Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
| title_short | Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
| title_sort | connected strangers manipulating social perceptions to study trust |
| topic | Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. |
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