What makes us trust or distrust one another? Happy to share a new #preprint on "trust in everyday life" together with Alexa Weiss, @corinnamichels7, Pascal Burgmer, Thomas Mussweiler, and Axel Ockenfels.
Preprint here: https://psyarxiv.com/qphk2 

We used experience sampling to study trust across different social settings & integrated three traditions in trust research (i.e., trustor tendency to trust, trustee characteristics, and aspects of the trustor-trustee relationship) into a general framework of trust experiences.

Across many interactions, we find high average trust levels, but also considerable variability across contexts, mostly due to trustee perception, closeness, and 3 key dimensions of situational interdependence: conflict of interests, information uncertainty, and power imbalance.

Two brief shoutouts to the many useful things we came across along the way:

1) We felt lucky to have included interdependence theory in its latest version by @FabiolaGerpott, @danielballiet, and colleagues, and quite amazed at how our tireless "freelance experimenter" a.k.a everyday life managed to shuffle these 5 dimensions around.

2) Network analysis tools by @sachaepskamp were extremely useful for understanding connections, and allowed us to conlcude that trust is an important hub interlinking trustee perception, dim. of interdependence and behavioral implications such as self-disclosure and cooperation.