Trust but verify: Distinguishing distrust
from vigilance
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Abstract
This study tested and found support for the view that trustful
individuals are neither necessarily gullible nor are necessarily vigilant
but rather there are two types of trustful individuals (1) the ones
who are careful and sensitive to information revealing opportunism
(prudent trusters); and (2) the ones who are indeed gullible (naive
trusters). I propose and find that vigilance and distrust are two
distinct constructs, and that it is a combination of vigilance and
trustfulness that enable people to predict with a high accuracy the
cooperation of others. Trustfulness, vigilance and expectations of other
behaviors were measured by a survey of 700 individuals in California
and data on the actual electricity consumption of the households in the
summer 2000 and summer 2001 were obtained from utility
companies in Southern California. Actual electricity reduction by the
average household from the summer 2000 to the summer 2001 and
individual expectations for how much electricity an average household
would save in this period were used to calculate the accuracy of
expectations of each individual.
What is available here
Related papers
Several of my other papers may be closely related to
this, including:
- Distinguishing Altruism and Fairness
- From the same research project and data source
- Types of OCB
- Presented at the same conference (Academy of Management Meeting,
2003)
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Author: Lívia Markóczy
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