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Trust and Rationality

An Integrative Framework for Trust Research

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Stephan Alexander Rompf

    1. Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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  • Study in the field of social sciences
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-13
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 15-27

  3. The Concept of Trust

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 29-78

  4. Origins and Explanations: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 79-156

  5. Trust and Adaptive Rationality

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 157-233

  6. The Social Construction of Trust

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 235-272

  7. Developing an Empirical Test

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 273-376

  8. Synthesis: A Broad Perspective on Trust

    • Stephan Alexander Rompf
    Pages 377-392

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 393-429
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About this book

Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches to trust, this book provides a general theoretical framework to causally explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at advancing a cognitive turn in trust research by highlighting the importance of (1) an actor´s context-dependent definition of the situation and (2) the flexible and dynamic degree of rationality involved. In essence, trust is as “multi-faceted” as there are cognitive routes that take us to the choice of a trusting act. Therefore, variable rationality has to be incorporated as an orthogonal dimension to the typological space of trust. The theory presents an analytically tractable model; the empirical test combines trust games, high- and low-incentive conditions, framing manipulations, and psychometric measurements, and is complemented by decision-time analyses.

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  • Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Stephan Alexander Rompf

About the author

Dr. Stephan Alexander Rompf studied Sociology and Economics at the University of Mannheim and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India. He is currently working as a financial analyst.

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