@article{b31db6aee3ce476eb632e8493815099b,
title = "When Social Constraints Increase Trust: Considering Causal Attributions as a Source of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity",
abstract = "The degree to which social constraints promote or undermine trust remains unknown. One classic perspective suggests that trust blossoms in the presence of social constraints, while another influential school of thought proposes that social constraints wither trust. The author integrates both traditions and proposes a model whereby social constraints increase trust, but only to the extent that individuals attribute another{\textquoteright}s perceived trustworthiness to the situation. As individuals increasingly attribute another{\textquoteright}s perceived trustworthiness to dispositional factors, the positive effect of social constraints on trust declines and approaches zero. The author addresses this debate and tests the model by designing two novel survey experiments of simulated car repair and group project scenarios. Findings from two large crowdsourced samples support the model. Implications for existing theory and future research are discussed.",
keywords = "attributions, social constraints, survey experiment, trust, trustworthiness",
author = "Robbins, {Blaine G.}",
note = "Funding Information: I thank Maria Grigoryeva, Edgar Kiser, Ross Matsueda, Jerald Herting, Darryl Holman, Steven Pfaff, Lisa Keister, James Moody, and the anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions; the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School at the University of Washington for funding support; and Richard Callahan for coding assistance. I also benefited from the opportunity to present parts of this work to the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Funding Information: This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SES-1303577), which bears no responsibility for the analysis and interpretations drawn here. Partial support for this research came from a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research infrastructure grant to the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology at the University of Washington (R24 HD042828). Publication was made possible in part by support from the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2016.",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/2378023116667360",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2",
journal = "Socius",
issn = "2378-0231",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
}