A Genetic Basis for Social Trust?

By Patrick Sturgis, S. Read, P. Hatemi, G. Zhu, Timothy Trull, M. Wright, Nicholas G. Martin. 2010

149 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. V. van Lange
2. René Bekkers
3. Erik van Ingen
4. P. Bauer
5. Markus Freitag
6. Pamala Wiepking
7. Bogdan Wojciszke
8. F. Handy

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. P. Bauer
2. P. V. van Lange

Citations in the corpus

• Personality traits and the propensity to trust friends and strangers (2016, background): “The lack of systematic data reflects the perceived moral and ethical quandaries that emanate from biologically rooted explanations of human traits and behavior (Sturgis et al., 2010).”
• Generalized Trust Through Civic Engagement? Evidence from Five National Panel Studies (2015, background): “Recently, twin studies have provided evidence for the idea that trust may also have a substantial genetic component (Hiraishi, Yamagata, Shikishima, & Ando, 2008; Shikishima, Hiraishi, & Ando, 2006; Sturgis et al., 2010).”
• Generalized Trust Four Lessons From Genetics and Culture (2015, background): “specific samples of adolescents and young adults (younger than 34 years) revealed for only some judgments that are linked to trust a heritability greater than 20% (Hiraishi, Yamagata, Shikishima, & Ando, 2008; Sturgis et al., 2010).”