title: Effect of relationship experience on trust recovery following a breach.
abstract: A violation of trust can have quite different consequences, depending on the nature of the relationship in which the trust breach occurs. In this article, we identify a key relationship characteristic that affects trust recovery: the extent of relationship experience before the trust breach. Across two experiments, this investigation establishes the behavioral effect that greater relationship experience before a trust breach fosters trust recovery. A neuroimaging experiment provides initial evidence that this behavioral effect is possible because of differential activation of two brain systems: while decision making after early trust breaches engages structures of a controlled social cognition system (C-system), specifically the anterior cingulate cortex and lateral frontal cortex, decision making after later trust breaches engages structures of an automatic social cognition system (X-system), specifically the lateral temporal cortex. The present findings make contributions to both social psychological theory and the neurophysiology of trust.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schilke
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reimann
authors.forename: Karen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D061347:Forgiveness; D005717:Games, Experimental; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012919:Social Behavior; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology*