Trust and Rationality: An Integrative Framework for Trust Research

✍ Scribed by Stephan Alexander Rompf (auth.)

• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: Forschung und Entwicklung in der Analytischen Soziologie
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches to trust, this book provides a general theoretical framework to causally explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at advancing a cognitive turn in trust research by highlighting the importance of (1) an actor´s context-dependent definition of the situation and (2) the flexible and dynamic degree of rationality involved. In essence, trust is as “multi-faceted” as there are cognitive routes that take us to the choice of a trusting act. Therefore, variable rationality has to be incorporated as an orthogonal dimension to the typological space of trust. The theory presents an analytically tractable model; the empirical test combines trust games, high- and low-incentive conditions, framing manipulations, and psychometric measurements, and is complemented by decision-time analyses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Introduction....Pages 15-27
The Concept of Trust....Pages 29-78
Origins and Explanations: An Interdisciplinary Approach....Pages 79-156
Trust and Adaptive Rationality....Pages 157-233
The Social Construction of Trust....Pages 235-272
Developing an Empirical Test....Pages 273-376
Synthesis: A Broad Perspective on Trust....Pages 377-392
Back Matter....Pages 393-429

✦ Subjects

Sociological Theory; Cognitive Psychology