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Understanding the trust deficit in China: Mapping positive experience and trust in strangers

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  • Jingjing Yao

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Zhi-Xue Zhang
  • Jeanne Brett
  • J. Keith Murnighan

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The observation that in China people generally do not trust strangers motivated us to study this phenomenon. We used the literature of guanxi to define strangers, and we drew on intergroup contact theory to hypothesize that positive experiences with outgroup, but not with ingroup members will increase trust in strangers. In three experiments we found that perceiving support from (Study 1), receiving help from (Study 2), and being trusted by (Study 3) outgroup members led to higher trust in strangers. Indirect reciprocity mediated this relationship, suggesting that people generalize experiences with one outgroup member to other social actors, and in turn, increase their trust in strangers. Study 4 showed that intrapersonal trust increased after a positive outgroup experience. Study 5 replicated this finding using secondary field data. This research contributes to the trust literature by showing how specific and eventful experiences increase trust in strangers.
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  • Jingjing Yao & Zhi-Xue Zhang & Jeanne Brett & J. Keith Murnighan, 2017. "Understanding the trust deficit in China: Mapping positive experience and trust in strangers," Post-Print hal-01745360, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01745360
    DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.12.003
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    1. Chen, Haidan, 2021. "Privacy in breast cancer biobank: Chinese patients’ perceptions," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 282(C).
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