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