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  • Behavioral Science

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  • Trust is crucial in life, yet its everyday manifestations and determinants remain underexplored.
  • Existing trust research often lacks ecological validity, limiting understanding of real-world trust dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the prevalence and determinants of trust versus distrust in naturalistic social interactions.
  • To examine how situational factors and individual differences shape everyday trust.

Main Methods:

  • Employed preregistered experience-sampling methodology across over 4,500 social interactions.
  • Utilized a heterogeneous sample of 427 participants to capture diverse trust experiences.
  • Integrated multiple theoretical approaches to trust and assessed dispositional and situational influences.

Main Results:

  • Found high average trust levels but significant variability across contexts, influenced by trustee perception and social distance.
  • Identified key situational interdependence dimensions (conflict of interest, information uncertainty, power imbalance) impacting trust.
  • Dispositional factors (general trust, moral identity, zero-sum beliefs) and their interaction with social distance shaped everyday trust.

Conclusions:

  • Trust functions as a relational hub, integrating perceptions, relational closeness, situational interdependence, and behavioral outcomes like self-disclosure.
  • Everyday trust is context-dependent and influenced by a complex interplay of individual traits and situational characteristics.
  • Understanding trust variability is key to comprehending social interactions, cooperation, and self-disclosure in diverse social environments.