Vertrauen und Misstrauen im Kontext aktueller gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen – zwei zentrale psychologische Regulatoren

The Connection between Neurophysiological Correlates of Trust and Distrust and Isolated HEXACO Dimensions

“…Furthermore, it was possible to find distinctions between the expressions of specific personality factors (honesty–humility and agreeableness) concerning the neurophysiological processing of trust and distrust. Through this, it was feasible to validate, by electroencephalographic exploration, the theoretical assumptions of modern, transactional trust and distrust theories, like those of [ 4 ] or [ 23 ], who showed psychometrically that trust and distrust are partly evoked by dispositional tendencies.…”

“…The aim of the present study is a neurophysiological exploration of the previously only psychometrical (i.e., [ 4 , 25 , 26 ]) and neuroanatomical (i.e., [ 9 , 10 ]) distinctions between trust and distrust. We expected to find significant differences in neurophysiological trust/distrust processing depending on the expression level of the HEXACO personality dimensions of honesty–humility and agreeableness.…”

“…The authors of this paper used the HEXACO model by [ 27 ] for the analysis, which represents an updated version of the OCEAN model by [ 21 ], which introduced the new sixth personality factor, honesty–humility. Due to the theoretical conception of the personality dimensions of agreeableness and honesty–humility [ 20 , 21 ] and the fact that authors like [ 4 , 22 , 23 , 28 ] highlighted the dispositive aspects of the constructs of trust and distrust, the authors of this paper decided to focus on the facets of agreeableness and honesty–humility for their initial explorative analysis. Furthermore, ref.…”

“…The initial concept was often revised, and according to multiple different paradigms and approaches, trust and distrust seem to be highly heterogenic in their theoretical conception, which impedes a holistic taxonomy as well as a possible objective operationalization. Especially in modern psychological research, “trust” and “distrust” are embraced as transactional cognitive information-processing functions, which are utilized to reduce the complexity of exogenetic factors and augment safety [ 4 , 7 ]. Based on these concepts, the present paper aims to apply newer transactional theories related to the neurophysiological correlates of trust and distrust by adding two arguably relevant personality dimensions.…”

“…[ 22 ] defined trust as a stable and consistent personality trait, which should be considered separately. This and other theories even inspired scholars trying to develop newer trust and distrust theories by incorporating dispositive tendencies in their framework, like the differential trust and distrust theory by [ 4 ] or the trust model by [ 23 ]. The assumption that personality and trust/distrust at least interact with each other is not new.…”