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Trust in Social Dilemmas by Paul A. M. van Lange (Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam)

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate with one another? What causes individuals to lend a helping hand to a stranger, even if it comes at a major cost to their own well-being? Why do people severely punish those who violate social norms and undermine the collective interest? Edited by Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, and Toshio Yamagishi, Trust in Social Dilemmas carefully considers the role of trust in establishing, promoting, and maintaining overall human cooperation. By exploring the impact of trust and effective cooperation on relationships, organizations, and communities, Trust in Social Dilemmas draws inspiration from the fact that social dilemmas, defined in terms of conflicts between self-interest and the collective interest, are omnipresent in today's society. In capturing the breadth and relevance of trust to social dilemmas and human cooperation more generally, this book is structured in three effective parts for readers: the biology and development of trust; the importance of trust for groups and organizations; and how trust factors across the overall health of today's society. As Van Lange, Rockenbach, Yamagishi, and their team of expert contributors all explore in this compelling new volume, there is little doubt that trust and cooperation are intimately related in most - if not all - of our social dilemmas.

Trust in Social Dilemmas Reviews

"It takes trust to eat out at a restaurant, to initiate a business relation with another party, or to respond to an email from a stranger. Especially in a social dilemma, where individual and collective goals are in conflict, trust is needed to resolve this conflict. With trust, relationships fare better, organizations perform better, and societies function better. In many cases trust is grounded in quick and heuristic assessments of other's trustworthiness. However, a strict 'rational actor' will be tempted to exploit any trust offered to her rather than reward it. Thus, the study of trust is filled with interesting complications, thought-provoking contradictions, and nuances that excite the researcher. Many key issues of this fascinating field are covered by this book. Both specialists and lay readers will enjoy it and profit." -- Manfred Milinski, Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plon "Trust is one of the foundational concepts in the social, behavioral, and life sciences. In this wonderful and timely volume, the editors assemble a diverse mix of leading scholars on this topic. They present the latest and most important findings on the evolutionary and biological foundations of trust, how trust develops over time, how it operates in both dyads and larger groups, and how and why trust sometimes functions differently within different cultures. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in trust, broadly defined." -- Jeffry A. Simpson, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

About Paul A. M. van Lange (Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam)

Paul A.M. Van Lange is Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence at VU University in Amsterdam. Bettina Rockenbach is Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Cologne. Toshio Yamagishi is Professor of Behavioral Science at the Graduate School of Letters of Hokkaido University in Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Trust: Introduction and Trending Topics Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, and Toshio Yamagishi Chapter 2: Trust and Social Dilemmas: A Selected Review of Evidence and Applications Karen S. Cook and Bogdan State Part I: Biology and Development of Trust Chapter 3: The Neurobiology of Trust and Cooperation: The Important Role of Emotions Jan B. Engelmann and Ernst Fehr Chapter 4: Neuroendrocrine Pathways to In-Group Bounded Trust and Cooperation Carsten K.W. De Dreu and Michael Giffin Chapter 5: The Foundations of Individuals' Generalized Social Trust: A Review Peter Thisted Dinesen and Rene Bekkers Chapter 6: How Trust in Social Dilemmas Evolves with Age Martin G. Kocher Part II: Trust in Dyads, Groups, and Organizations Chapter 7: Let Me Help You Help Me: Trust Between Profit and Prosociality Joachim I. Krueger, Anthony M. Evans, and Patrick R. Heck Chapter 8: The Mysteries of Trust: Trusting Too Little and Too Much at the Same Time Detlef Fetchenhauer, David Dunning, and Thomas Schlosser Chapter 9: Trust and Cooperation: Survey Evidence and Behavioral Experiments Christian Thoni Chapter 10: The Future of Organizational Trust Research: A Content-Analytic Synthesis of Scholarly Recommendations and Review of Recent Developments Bart A. de Jong, David P. Kroon, and Oliver Schilke Part III: Trust in Different Cultures Chapter 11: Individualism-Collectivism, the Rule of Law, and General Trust Toshio Yamagishi Chapter 12: The Influence of Globalization and Ethnic Fractionalization on Cooperation and Trust in Kenya Nancy R. Buchan and Robert Rolfe Chapter 13: Improving Outcomes in the Trust Game: The Games People Choose in Oman, the United States, and Vietnam Iris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann, Maliheh Paryavi, Anh Tran, and Richard Zeckhauser Chapter 14: Trust in African Villages: Experimental Evidence from Rural Sierra Leone Paul Hofman, Erwin Bulte, and Maarten Voors

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NPB9780190630782
9780190630782
0190630787
Trust in Social Dilemmas by Paul A. M. van Lange (Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Professor and Chair in Social Interaction and Interdependence, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam)
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2017-08-03
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