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. Table of Contents: 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 About the Editors: 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. Contributors: René Bekkers Faculty of Social Sciences VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Iris Bohnet John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA Nancy Buchan Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Erwin Bulte Development Economics Group Wageningen University Wageningen, the Netherlands; Department of Economics Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands Karen S. Cook Department of Sociology Stanford University Stanford, CA Carsten K.W. De Dreu Department of Psychology Center for Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bart de Jong Department of Management and Organizations VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands David Dunning Department of Psychology Cornell University Ithaca, NY Jan Engelmann Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Anthony M. Evans Department of Social Psychology Tilburg University Tilburg, the Netherlands Ernst Fehr Department of Economics University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland Detlef Fetchenhauer Department of Economic and Social Psychology University of Cologne Köln, Germany Michael Giffin Department of Psychology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands Patrick R. Heck Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Brown University Providence, RI Benedikt Herrmann School of Economics University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom Paul Hofman Development Economics Group Wageningen University Wageningen, the Netherlands Martin Kocher Department of Economics University of Munich Munich, Germany David Kroon Department of Management and Organization VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Joachim I. Krueger Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Brown University Providence, RI Marliheh Paryavi John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA Bettina Rockenbach Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences University of Cologne Köln, Germany Robert Rolfe Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Oliver Schilke Department of Management and Organizations University of Arizona Tuscon, AZ Thomas Schlösser Department of Economic and Social Psychology University of Cologne Köln, Germany Bogdan State Department of Sociology Stanford University Stanford, CA Peter Thisted Dinesen Department of Political Science University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Christian Thöni Département D'économétrie et D'économie Politique University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland Anh Tran School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, IN Paul A.M. Van Lange Department of Psychology VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Maarten Voors Development Economics Group Wageningen University Wageningen, the Netherlands; Department of Land Economy University of Cambridge Cambridge, England, UK Toshio Yamagishi Department of Behavioral Science Graduate School of Letters Hokkaido University Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan Richard Zeckhauser John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA |