Cultural differences in investing in others and in the future: why measuring trust is not enough |
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Authors: | Pascal Boyer Pierre Lienard Jing Xu |
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Affiliation: | Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. |
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Abstract: | Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people's willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results suggest that these measures capture deep differences in economic attitudes that are not detected by standard measures of generalized trust. |
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