期刊名称：Gruter Institute Working Papers on Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Biology
出版年度：2006
卷号：4
出版社：Bepress
摘要：Trust pervades every aspect of
our daily lives, from business transactions to dealings with loved-ones, yet why
we trust others in some instances but not others is little understood. At an
aggregate level, surveys of trustworthiness show enormous differences across
countries, from 3% in Brazil to 65% in Norway. This article reports on new
research that has characterized the legal, social, economic, and environmental
factors that cause trust to be high or low. It also reports on laboratory
experiments that demonstrate that trust has a neurophysiological basis. This
research shows that low trust is a fundamental cause of poverty, but also that
trust is directly influenced by government policies and particular human
interactions. The article concludes with implications of this research for a
variety of business situations.
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