Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 456-462.

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The Influence of Task Types and Gender Attribute on Interpersonal Trust

KANG Ting-hu1, BAI Xue-jun2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, North West Normal University, Lanzhou 730070;
    2. Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300074
  • Online:2012-09-15 Published:2012-09-15

Abstract: This study adopted investment game task and its variant to investigate the effects of gender attributes and task risk on interpersonal trust.24 participants aged 20.41±1.99 completed Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 through different rounds.Results showed that: (1) In risk task,there was a significance discrepancy between different gender trustors' trust placing,while their trust levels were different for different gender trustee.(2) In no risk task,trustees' trust keeping were influenced by trustors' trust placing,and the gender attributes of trustees or trustors didn't affected trustees' behavior.So sum up,whether or not gender attribute influenced interpersonal trust that depend on the task risk.

Key words: task type, gender, interpersonal trust

CLC Number: 

  • B841
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