Mind-Brain Lecture: “To Trust or Not to Trust, That is the Question: The neural correlates of interpersonal trust”
Speaker Frank Krueger (Mason)
Date 10 June 2010, 18:30
Location
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1
FESTSAAL (2nd floor)
10117 Berlin
Contact Annette Winkelmann
Organized by Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Hosted by Elke van der Meer
Abstract: Trust pervades nearly every social aspect of our daily lives, from personal relationships to organizational interactions encompassing economic exchange and politics. Although trust permits reciprocal behavior fostering mutual advantages for cooperators and maximize their evolutionary fitness, the underlying neural architecture of interpersonal trust is not well understood. I will propose a cognitive neuroscience view of how cognitive systems for empathy and mentalizing, emotional systems for social approach and avoidance, and motivational systems for learning strategies can be integrated to explain diverse aspects of interpersonal trust. The interplay of these neural systems mediates interpersonal trust that operates beyond the immediate spheres of kinship and determines which forms of economic, social, and political institutions develop within social groups.
Frank Krueger, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics, and Chief of the Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECON) Laboratory, Department of Molecular Neuroscience at George Mason University, Virginia, USA
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