... that created noise and seismic vibrations which could negatively affect public support for geothermal energy systems. Here, we employed a trust inoculation in a preregistered, longitudinal field study, to make the trustworthiness of the responsible utility company salient to protect public support...

...) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Action effect inaction effect trust preference competence norms regret joy In 1982, Kahneman and Tversky provided the first demonstration of an action...

... natural faces that are merely labelled to be artificial are also trusted less. A meta-analysis of all five experiments suggested that natural faces merely labeled as being artificial were judged to be less trustworthy. This bias did not depend on the degree of trustworthiness and attractiveness...

... to the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., online teaching to prevent the spread of the virus). Furthermore, we provide initial behavioral evidence for this effect by showing that transfers in a trust game increase with a target’s caring about a social issue. All results are robust for age, gender, and social issue...

...Alexa S. Clerke; Erin A. Heerey; Catherine Molho Research on trust development has generally focused on how similarities between people influence trust allocation. However, similarity in interests and beliefs, which underpins trust development and may be critical to relationship success, is seldom...

... are credited. social dilemma trust prosocial behaviour honesty-humility covid-19 With the spread of the 2019/20 COVID-19 pandemic to Europe and North America in early March 2020, there were widespread reports that people were buying up soap and hand sanitiser, but also food and other daily...