Trust as a polymorphous phenomenon. Psychological specificity of trust in communal-sharing and market-pricing relations

This project experimentally investigates specificity of trust in two, qualitatively different types of relationships–communal-sharing and market-pricing relationships. In the former people are guided by the other person’s benefit and welfare, while in the latter they care about their self-interest—how much they get out of their investment and whether the repayment is of a comparable value.…

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Visualizing risky situations induces a stronger neural response in brain areas associated with mental imagery and emotions than visualizing non-risky situations

Zaleskiewicz, T., Traczyk, J., Sobkow, A., Fulawka, K., and Megías-Robles, A. (2023) Visualizing risky situations induces a stronger neural response in brain areas associated with mental imagery and emotions than visualizing non-risky situations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:1207364. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1207364

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Market mindset hinders interpersonal trust: The exposure to market relationships makes people trust less through elevated proportional thinking and reduced state empathy

Kuzminska, A. O., Gasiorowska, A., & Zaleskiewicz, T. (2023). Market mindset hinders interpersonal trust: The exposure to market relationships makes people trust less through elevated proportional thinking and reduced state empathy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(8), 1830-1851. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221126416

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