How do we learn who to trust?

Participants repeatedly interacted with partners who varied in their trustworthiness in both how they looked and also behaved. We found that trustworthy judgments can be modeled as a dynamic belief about the likelihood of a partner reciprocating and that perceptions of trustworthiness modulate the learning speed.

Authors

Luke J. Chang, Bradley B. Doll, Mascha van ’t Wout, Michael J. Frank, Alan G. Sanfey

Publication

Cognitive Psychology

March 22, 2010

How do we learn who to trust?

March 22, 2010

Authors

Luke J. Chang, Bradley B. Doll, Mascha van ’t Wout, Michael J. Frank, Alan G. Sanfey

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