Trust

Recent Awards

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Capstone Volume for the Trust Initiative"
June 2007, $6,150

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Capstone Volume for the Trust Initiative"
February 2007, $34,565

Robert Sampson, Harvard University

"Network and Community Dynamics of Working Trust: A Comparative Panel Study of Institutional Leaders, 1995-2002"
November 2004, $124,405
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Richard Sosis, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Bradley Ruffle, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Trust, Religion, and Signaling"
November 2004, $165,854
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Jonathan Baron, University of Pennsylvania

"Trust in Computerized Decision Aids"
April 2004, $15,000
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Robert Slonim, Case Western Reserve University

"Trust and Selective Discrimination"
December 2003, $30,801
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Avner Ben-Ner, University of Minnesota
Louis Putterman, Brown University

"The Determinants of Trusting and Trustworthiness"
November 2003, $83,982
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R. Thomas Boone, St. John's University
Ross Buck, University of Connecticut, Storrs

"The Communication of Trustworthiness: Affect Expression as the Mechanism"
June 2003, $136,456
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Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles
James Habyarimana, Harvard University
Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Jeremy Weinstein, Harvard University

"Ethnic Identity, Collective Action and Trust: An Experimental Approach"
June 2003, $197,754
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Margaret Foddy, Carleton University
Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University

"Group-Based Trust in Strangers: A Program of Cross-Societal Research"
June 2003, $114,732
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Markus Mobias, Harvard University
Dean Karlan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tanya Rosenblat, Wesleyan University

"Trust and Social Networks"
June 2003, $131,900
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Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles

"Trust and Trustworthiness in Commodity Business Markets"
May 2003, $34,439
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Gabriella Montinola, University of California, Davis

"The Sources of Trust in Local Courts in a Low-Trust Setting"
May 2003, $20,349
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Felix Oberholzer-Gee, University of Pennsylvania

"The Speed of New Ideas: The Role of Trust in the Diffusion of New Technologies"
January 2003, $18,893
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Gary Charness, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Dufwenberg, Stockholm University

"Trust and Communication in Partnerships"
November 2002, $125,726

Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford
Ed Cairns, University of Ulster
Alberto Voci, University of Padua
Ulrich von Hecker, Cardiff University

"Sectarian Conflict and Cross-Community Trust in Northern Ireland"
November 2002, $199,824

Carol Heimer, Northwestern University

"Trustworthiness and Trust in Medical Treatment and Research: An Ethnographic Study of the Effects of the 'Legal Turn' in Medicine"
October 2002, $33,600

William McEvily, Carnegie Mellon University

"Measuring Trust in Organizational Contexts: Review and Recommendations"
September 2002, $10,700

Kenneth Rotenberg, Keele University
Michael Boulton, Keele University

"Development of a Generalized Trust Belief Scale for Young Children"
June 2002, $22,200
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Robert Kurzban, University of Arizona

"Trust and Information-Seeking in a Public Goods Game"
June 2002, $32,371

Marilynn Brewer, Ohio State University

"Depersonalized Trust and Collectivist Orientation"
June 2002, $23,866

Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Gilles Postel-Vinay, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles

"Trust Supporting Institutions and Economic Growth: Local Credit Markets in France, 1740-1899"
June 2002, $146,694

Chaim Fershtman, Tel Aviv University
Uri Gneezy, University of Chicago

"Trust and Discrimination in Segmented Societies: An Experimental Approach"
June 2002, $191,475

Larry Bartels, Princeton University

"Conference on Trust in Government"
March 2002, $8,500

James Andreoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Building Trust by Starting Small: A Behavioral Economics Analysis"
January 2002, $128,915
Project Description

Andrew Whitford, University of Kansas
William Bottom, Washington University
Gary Miller, Washington University

"Trust in Principal-Agent Negotiations: Can Gift-Exchange Minimize Efficiency Loss?"
January 2002, $112,398
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Mark Lubell, Florida State University

"Trust and Cooperation in Watershed Management"
December 2001, $117,043
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Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University

"Historical Study of Trust and Credit in the United States"
November 2001, $20,100
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Kathryn Miller, Stanford University

"Commerce and Captivity: The Role of Trust in the Redemption of Captives Across Religious and Political Boundaries"
November 2001, $25,250
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Melanie Green, University of Pennsylvania

"Development and Perception of Trust in On-Line Relationships"
October 2001, $12,608
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Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

"The Role of Trust in Social Service Delivery"
June 2001, $196,867

Abigail Barr, Oxford University

"Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Dynamics of Trustfulness"
June 2001, $24,990

Thomas LaVeist, Johns Hopkins University

"Mistrust of the Medical Care System"
June 2001, $19,997

Margaret Levi, University of Washington

"In Unions We Trust"
February 2001, $25,008
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Jonathan Baron, University of Pennsylvania

"Can Consequence-Maximizing Authorities Inspire Trust?"
November 2000, $25,000
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Iris Bohnet, Harvard University
Steffen Huck, University of London

"Trustworthiness and Institutions: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis"
November 2000, $78,821
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Diego Gambetta, University of Oxford
Michael Bacharach, University of Oxford
Heather Hamill, University of Oxford
Roderick M. Kramer, Stanford University

"Signaling and Mimicking Trustworthiness: Taxi Drivers and Their Customers in Dangerous Cities"
November 2000, $109,364
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Alan Miller, Hokkaido University

"Limitations of Survey Research on Trust"
November 2000, $19,350
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Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles

"Trust and the Growth of Financial Intermediation in France, 1740-1900"
July 2000, $25,000

Dietland Stolle, McGill University

"The Political and Social Role of Families in the Creation of Generalized Trust"
June 2000, $25,000
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William T. Bianco, Penn State University

"The Microfoundations of Political Trust"
June 2000, $47,071
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Margaret Brown, Washington University

"The Social Organization of the Malagasy Vanilla Trade: Examining the Role of Trust in a Recently Liberalized Market"
June 2000, $19,320
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Susan Stokes, Yale University

"Trust and the Consolidation of Democracy"
June 2000, $121,394
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John Brehm, Duke University
Scott Gates, Michigan State University

"Trust Within Public Bureaucracies"
November 1999, $30,832
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Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
Donald Kinder, University of Michigan

"Trust and Democratic Politics"
November 1999, $194,193
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Karen S. Cook, Stanford University
Roderick M. Kramer, Stanford University
David Thom, Stanford University

"Reciprocal Trust in Patient-Physician Relationships: Managing the Transition from Individual to Group Trust"
November 1999, $24,500
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Jean Ensminger, California Institute of Technology

"Examining Trust, Cooperation, and Fairness: A Cross-Cultural Study Using Experimental Economics"
November 1999, $119,238
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Kevin McCabe, University of Arizona
Daniel Houser, University of Arizona
Vernon Smith, George Mason University

"Trust and Reciprocity in Interpersonal Exchange"
November 1999, $102,391
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Piotr Swistak, University of Maryland at College Park

"Trust, Rationality, and Social Structure"
November 1999, $15,070
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Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University

"Risk Taking and Trust Building"
November 1999, $24,300
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