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This paper takes a longitudinal approach to the study of trust, a) to distinguish between different
bases for developing trust within temporary workgroups and to explore how trust between team
members changes over time; b) to explore the effects of different trust-based relationships to the
functioning and performance of temporary project teams. An initial sample of 108 students
grouped into 38 project teams provided data at the beginning and at the end of the project. The
results support the conceptualization of trust as a multi-component construct composed of
propensity to trust, perceived trustworthiness, cooperative behaviors and lack of monitoring.
1050.3 The basis and evolution of trust in relational cultures: Psychological, indigenous, and
cultural analysis, Y.S. Park 1 , U. Kim 2 , S.M. Lee 1 , 1 Inha University, Incheon, South Korea;
2
Chung-ang University, Seoul, South Korea
This presentation examines the development and evolution of trust in relational cultures using
indigenous psychological analysis. Trust evolves from close interpersonal relationship and
expands to a wider circle of relationship. A review of series of qualitative, cross-sectional, and
longitudinal studies conducted in Korea indicates the strong relational and emotional basis of trust.
People are trust not because of their ability, rationality, or personality, but because of sacrifice,
sincerity, and fulfillment of their roles. Rather than the pursuit of self-interest and maximal gain,
the results indicate maintenance of harmonious and lasting relationship is the basis of trust in
Korea.
1050.4 T, Q and L data in the psychological study of trust, J.M. Prieto, Complutense University,
Madrid, Spain
Logocentrism is a common temptation in I/O Psychology research when too much emphasis is
placed on the use of words and questions (Q-data) as a fundamental expression of organizational
or occupational realities. A way of avoiding this bias is setting up psychological measurements
grounded on a) occupational tasks used as tests (T data) to scrutinize a climate of trust, non-trust
or distrust that prevails in a given interpersonal transaction, b) unobtrusive and daily life
observations (L-data) to scrutinize how a trusting, non-trusting or distrusting mood emerges. This
research highlights benefits of combining Q, L and T data to avoid logocentrism.
1051 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Psychology’s responses to social issues in Latin America
Convener and Chair: M. Montero, Venezuela
1051.1 A new look at the cognitive revolution, W.C. Rodriguez-Arocho, Puerto Rico
University, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Recently, important transformations have taken place in cognitive psychology. First, cognitive
psychologists have been forced to confront the limits of traditional paradigms when it comes to
modeling and theorizing about meaning. Second, such modeling and theorizing have been
confronted with the complexity of human subjectivity and the need to address it if some
meaningful understanding of human cognition is ever to be attained. To these transformations
underlie the social nature of human cognition and the interpersonal processes by which meanings
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