Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions.

ABSTRACT: Trust lies at the heart of every social interaction. Each day we face decisions in which we must accurately assess another individual's trustworthiness or risk suffering very real consequences. In a global marketplace of increasing heterogeneity with respect to nationality, race, and multiple other social categories, it is of great value to understand how implicitly held attitudes about group membership may support or undermine social trust and thereby implicitly shape the decisions we make. Recent behavioral and neuroimaging work suggests that a common mechanism may underlie the expression of implicit race bias and evaluations of trustworthiness, although no direct evidence of a connection exists. In two behavioral studies, we investigated the relationship between implicit race attitude (

SUBMITTER: Stanley DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3093479 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature