Loneliness is associated with more trust but worse trustworthiness expectations.

Autor: Bellucci G; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.; Department of Psychology I, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany., Park SQ; Department of Psychology I, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.; Department of Decision Neuroscience and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany.; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Neuroscience Research Center, Berlin, Germany.; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) [Br J Psychol] 2024 Nov; Vol. 115 (4), pp. 641-664. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 29.
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12713
Abstrakt: Subjective feelings of loneliness emerge due to unsatisfactory social relationships, representing a major risk for mental and physical well-being. Despite its social nature, evidence on how loneliness affects social behaviours and expectations is lacking. Using Bayesian analyses and economic games, we show in three different studies that lonelier individuals trusted their partners to a greater extent despite less favourable trustworthiness expectations, showing a greater discrepancy between their trusting behaviours and their expectations of others' trustworthiness. Such discrepancy was reversed in extravert individuals who also reported to be less lonely. These results provide evidence on two opposing effects of loneliness as a motivator for social connections and promoter of social withdrawal, and demonstrate the moderating role of personality traits. This work contributes to a better understanding of how loneliness impacts social behaviour and social expectations, with important downstream clinical implications for varying health conditions associated with heightened feelings of loneliness.
(© 2024 The Author(s). British Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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