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The dynamics of con...
The dynamics of contracts and generalized trustworthiness
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- Simpson, Brent (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning
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- Eriksson, Kimmo, 1967- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning,Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,MERO
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- 2009-02-01
- 2009
- English.
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In: Rationality and Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1043-4631 .- 1461-7358. ; 21:1, s. 59-80
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- Generalized trust, or trust in strangers, has been traced to a wide range of societal benefits. But generalized trust is not sustainable in the absence of widespread generalized trustworthiness, that is, the tendency for strangers to honor trust extended to them. While there has been much work on the origins and consequences of generalized trust, surprisingly little research has addressed the antecedents of generalized trustworthiness. We argue that generalized trustworthiness is negatively affected by prior exposure to a ubiquitous extrinsic motivator of trustworthy behavior, contracts. Specifically, drawing on classic social psychological research on the overjustification effect, we argue that actors previously constrained by contracts will attribute their own ‘trustworthy’ behavior in those interactions to the contract itself. According to overjustification arguments, this misattribution should lead to a decrease in intrinsic motivations to act trustworthily in interactions where the actor is not constrained by the contract. Results of a new experiment support this argument.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Matematik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- contracts
- exchange
- overjustification
- trust
- trustworthiness
- MATHEMATICS
- MATEMATIK
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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