Abstract
In Chap. 4, I presented the argument that trust toward others in general emancipates people from the confines of stable relationships and, thus, having a high level of general trust may serve one’s self-interest when the level of opportunity costs is high. The argument was summarized as the emancipation theory of trust. In this chapter, I present results of a USA–Japan comparative questionnaire survey my colleagues and I conducted to test some of the propositions mentioned earlier, and examine whether or not the USA–Japan differences predicted by the theory actually exists.
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Details of the design, procedures, and results of the study are reported in Yamagishi and Yamagishi (1994).
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Footnote for the English edition: This practice has changed greatly since the publication of the Japanese edition in 1998.
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Yamagishi, T. (2011). Assurance in Japan, Trust in the US. In: Trust. The Science of the Mind. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53936-0_5
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