Trust in Social Dilemmas

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.

Paul A.M. Van Lange is Professor of Social Psychology and Head of Social and Organizational Psychology at VU University in Amersterdam in the Netherlands. Bettina Rockenbach is Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Cologne in Germany. Toshio Yamagishi is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.

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 René 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 Schlösser Chapter 9: Trust and Cooperation: Survey Evidence and Behavioral Experiments Christian Thöni 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