Interpersonal trust and fundamentals

Individual citizens and private organizations interact frequently with the ‘frontline’ of specific government actors, with respect to regulations in a multi-level context. Trust arising in these frontline interactions is influenced by the trustworthiness of the individual government professionals, their organizations and the multi-level institutional setting, but how and under which conditions? GOVTRUST researchers use methods ranging from lab experiments to legal research to discern the fundamentals of interpersonal trust in individual-level interactions.

• Boone, C., Buyl, T., Declerck, C. H., & Sajko, M. (2022). A neuroscience-based model of why and when CEO social values affect investments in corporate social responsibility. The Leadership Quarterly, 33(3), 101386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101386
• Pauwels, L., Declerck, C. H., Boone, C., Diaz-Gutiérrez, P., & Lambert, B. (2022). Does power corrupt? An fMRI study on the effect of power and social value orientation on inequity aversion. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 15(4), 222-240. https://doi.org/10.1037/npe0000163
• Declerck, C. (2020). Behind the Paper: Oxytocin and Trust. Springer Nature, Social Science Community. https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/oxytocin-and-trust
  
• Declerck, C. H. (2020). Neuroeconomics of cooperation heuristics: The role of incentives, social cues, and hormones. In J. Harbecke & C. Herrmann-Pillath (Eds.), Social Neuroeconomics: Mechanistic Integration of the Neurosciences and the Social Sciences (pp. 77-96). Routledge.
• Declerck, C. H., Boone, C., Pauwels, L., Vogt, B., & Fehr, E. (2020). A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0878-x

• Democratic Innovations and Scale: How Population Size Affects Direct and Deliberative Citizen Participation – 2023-2026 – FWO Junior postdoctoral fellowship – Christoph Niessen, Petra Meier
  
• Time to give up? Establishing a survey panel on how accumulations of interactions with government affect psychosocial well-being and citizen decisions to give up during procedures – 2023-2024 – BOF Small research grants – Bjorn Kleizen
  
• Will this ordeal ever end? How the accumulation of administrative encounters can erode trust in government and create psychological harm – 2022 2025 – FWO Junior postdoctoral fellowship – Bjorn Kleizen, Wouter Van Dooren
  
• Citizen survey: Support with regard to the content, process, methodology and drafting of the survey and reporting for the online platform – 2021 – Private funding – Patricia Popelier
  
• Determinants of fairness and inequity aversion in leader-follower relationships: The role of incentives, norms, and social value orientation – 2019-2021 – Carolyn Declerck