Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
Conscious Cogn. 2024 Apr;120:103683. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103683. Epub 2024 Mar 28.
This study addresses the effects of blindness on trust. Using an auditory version of the multi-round Trust Game, we investigated the effect of reputation and reciprocity on trust decisions in early blind and sighted participants. During each round of the game, participants were endowed with a sum of money and had to decide how much they wanted to invest in their partners, who were manipulated as a function of their good or bad reputation and individualistic or cooperative behavior. The data showed that negative first impression about the partner (bad reputation and/or selfish behavior) impacted more blind participants than sighted ones. However, following repeated interactions with the partners, the overall mean investment aligned between the blind and sighted groups. We interpret these findings as suggesting that blindness may guide participants to a more cautionary behavior when dealing with partners with negative initial characteristics.
这项研究探讨了失明对信任的影响。我们使用听觉版的多轮信任游戏，调查了早期盲人和视力正常参与者的声誉和互惠对信任决策的影响。在游戏的每一轮中，参与者都会获得一笔钱，并决定他们想要向合作伙伴投资多少，合作伙伴的行为是根据他们的良好声誉和个人主义或合作行为来操纵的。数据显示，对合作伙伴的负面第一印象（不良声誉和/或自私行为）对更多的盲人参与者产生的影响比对视力正常者更大。然而，在与合作伙伴进行多次互动后，盲人组和视力正常组的总体平均投资水平趋于一致。我们将这些发现解释为，失明可能会引导参与者在与具有负面初始特征的合作伙伴打交道时采取更为谨慎的行为。
