This article establishes that there are significant social influences on the decisions made by individuals about whether to trust others. These social interactions effects may arise from exogenous-environmental characteristics or from endogenous effects that make people conform to the particular...

Russian Abstract Предлагается обоснование применимости индикаторов доверия государства к гражданскому обществу, т. е веры государства в лояльность к нему общества и в...

This chapter applies social identity analysis to social capital theory in order to explain trust and conflict in social networks. It reformulates Putnam’s bridging-bonding social capital distinction in terms of the relational social identities-categorical social identities distinction, and...

Recent insights from the 'embodied cognition' perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a 'methodological interactionism' that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology, and is...

In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian...

The concept of 'trust' (as well as that of term 'risk') appear to have settled in the social sciences, resulting in a lively discussion at both theoretical and empirical levels. One can safely say that the issue of trust has become a fashionable object of analysis in the humanities, which...

Authors described relationships between economic crisis and crisis of trust. The paper identifies elements, which play significant role in trust building and destruction. Consequences of behavioral factors of the market players were discussed. Relationships between the social status, higher...

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) threatened to bring world financial markets to a halt. It is now coming to light that in the run-up to, and at the height of, the GFC, investment banks and other participants in the financial markets acted unethically as well as imprudently. This article takes a...

This paper builds on the idea that trust is a matter of embedded agency where trustors and trustees, as actors, interpret the social context in which they are embedded. Insofar as this context is institutionalized, trust may be quite ‘normal' and achieved fairly easily by reference to...

We document a significant decline in the level of generalized trust among finance professionals relative to the decline of trust in the general U.S. population. This decline occurs across all subsectors and at all hierarchy levels and is unique to the finance industry. It is related to a lack of...