Is participation in high-status culture a signal of trustworthiness?

ABSTRACT: Trust is essential for social interactions, cooperation and social order. Research has shown that social status and common group memberships are important determinants of receiving and reciprocating trust. However, social status and group membership can coincide or diverge-with potentially different effects. Our study contributes to the existing literature on the role of status and group membership by testing two separate trust-generating mechanisms against each other. We examine if individuals tend to place trust in high-status groups (irrespective of their own group membership) or, rather, if they tend to trust others with whom they share a common group membership. We assume that status group membership is signalled by cultural (musical) taste. This operationalization follows the theoret

SUBMITTER: Aidenberger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7199962 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature