Aversions to Trust

作者：Corcos Anne^*; Pannequin Francois; Bourgeois Gironde Sacha

来源：Louvain Economic Review, 2012, 78(3-4): 115-+.

• trust game
• betrayal aversion
• ambiguity aversion
• neuroeconomics

In this article, we focus on two types of "aversion" which we deem essential aspects of the notion of trust: betrayal aversion (social) and ambiguity aversion (a special case of aversion to uncertainty). Based on trust-games studies in experimental economics and neuroeconomics, our main goal is to assess the conceptual, behavioral and neurobiological connections between betrayal and ambiguity aversions.
From a social and individual psychological point of view the bottom line of our trusting behavior could be our general aversion to ambiguous signals. We approach social trust in the terms of a phenomenon based on uncertainty aversion. Specifically, a reduction of the perceived uncertainty of a social interaction tends to build up a trusting climate conducive to trade by decreasing betrayal aversion. We hypothesize that betrayal aversion and ambiguity aversion bear such a negative correlation.
Focusing on this potential negative correlation our approach clearly differs from more positive accounts of trust centred on altruism.

• 出版日期2012