TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hahn, Tim
A1  - Notebaert, Karolien
A1  - Anderl, Christine
A1  - Teckentrup, Vanessa
A1  - Kaßecker, Anja
A1  - Windmann, Sabine
T1  - How to trust a perfect stranger : predicting initial trust behavior from resting-state brain-electrical connectivity
T2  - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
N2  - Reciprocal exchanges can be understood as the updating of an initial belief about a partner. This initial level of trust is essential when it comes to establishing cooperation with an unknown partner, as cooperation cannot arise without a minimum of trust not justified by previous successful exchanges with this partner. Here we demonstrate the existence of a representation of the initial trust level before an exchange with a partner has occurred. Specifically, we can predict the Investor’s initial investment—i.e. his initial level of trust toward the unknown trustee in Round 1 of a standard 10-round Trust Game—from resting-state functional connectivity data acquired several minutes before the start of the Trust Game. Resting-state functional connectivity is, however, not significantly associated with the level of trust in later rounds, potentially mirroring the updating of the initial belief about the partner. Our results shed light on how the initial level of trust is represented. In particular, we show that a person’s initial level of trust is, at least in part, determined by brain electrical activity acquired well before the beginning of an exchange.
KW  - Trust Game
KW  - resting-state
KW  - electroencephalography (EEG)
KW  - functional connectivity
KW  - reciprocity
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50601
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-506014
SN  - 1749-5024
SN  - 1749-5016
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
VL  - 10
IS  - 6
SP  - 809
EP  - 813
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -