Social class and interpersonal trust: Partner's warmth, external threats and interpretations of trust betrayal.
The present research investigated the effects of social class on interpersonal trust. In a series of experiments, we showed how the contextualist socio‐cognitive tendencies of the lower class and the solipsistic tendencies of the upper class were reflected in their trusting attitudes and behaviors....
| Published in: | European Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 634 - 646 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2020
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