Trust me! Examining how group membership and self-disclosure affects trust perceptions between strangers

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dc.contributor.advisorGasiorek, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorCasale, Robert
dc.contributor.departmentCommunicology
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T17:50:46Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T17:50:46Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/63171
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectGroups
dc.subjectSelf-Disclosure
dc.subjectTrust
dc.titleTrust me! Examining how group membership and self-disclosure affects trust perceptions between strangers
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractIn this study, group membership and self-disclosure intimacy were manipulated to examine if they impacted participants’ perceptions of trust in a stranger. It was hypothesized that ingroup strangers and intimate self-disclosers would garner more trust and be more likely to receive a reciprocal self-disclosure than outgroup strangers and those who did not self-disclose intimately. In an experiment, participants (n = 184) were asked to report their perceptions of a stranger they read about in two contexts where group membership was determined by either geographic origin or age. Findings showed that ingroup intimate self-disclosers elicited significantly more trust when compared to ingroup non-intimate self-disclosers. When geographic origin was the criterion for group membership, ingroup intimate self-disclosers were more likely than non-intimate self-disclosers to receive a reciprocal self-disclosure. Also, when age was the criterion for group membership, ingroup intimate self-disclosers received significantly more intimate reciprocal self-disclosures than outgroup members or non-intimate self-disclosers. These findings support the idea that group membership and self-disclosure intimacy can impact perceptions of trust in and communicative behaviors towards others.
dcterms.descriptionM.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2019
dcterms.extent79 pages
dcterms.languageeng
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
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local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10270

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