One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate with one another? What causes individuals to lend a helping hand to a stranger, even if it comes at a major cost to their own well-being? Why do people severely punish those who violate social norms and undermine the collective interest? Edited by Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, and Toshio Yamagishi, Trust in Social Dilemmas carefully considers the role of trust in establishing, promoting, and maintaining overall human cooperation.By exploring the impact of trust and effective cooperation on relationships, organizations, and communities, Trust in Social Dilemmas draws inspiration from the fact that social dilemmas, defined in terms of conflicts between self-interest and the collective interest, are omnipresent in today's society. In capturing the breadth and relevance of trust to social dilemmas and human cooperation more generally, this book is structured in three effective parts for readers: the biology and development of trust; the importance of trust for groups and organizations; and how trust factors across the overall health of today's society.As Van Lange, Rockenbach, Yamagishi, and their team of expert contributors all explore in this compelling new volume, there is little doubt that trust and cooperation are intimately related in most - if not all - of our social dilemmas.

PrefaceChapter 1: Trust: Introduction and Trending TopicsPaul A.M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, and Toshio YamagishiChapter 2: Trust and Social Dilemmas: A Selected Review of Evidence and ApplicationsKaren S. Cook and Bogdan StatePart I: Biology and Development of TrustChapter 3: The Neurobiology of Trust and Cooperation: The Important Role of EmotionsJan B. Engelmann and Ernst FehrChapter 4: Neuroendrocrine Pathways to In-Group Bounded Trust and CooperationCarsten K.W. De Dreu and Michael GiffinChapter 5: The Foundations of Individuals' Generalized Social Trust: A ReviewPeter Thisted Dinesen and René BekkersChapter 6: How Trust in Social Dilemmas Evolves with AgeMartin G. KocherPart II: Trust in Dyads, Groups, and OrganizationsChapter 7: Let Me Help You Help Me: Trust Between Profit and ProsocialityJoachim I. Krueger, Anthony M. Evans, and Patrick R. HeckChapter 8: The Mysteries of Trust: Trusting Too Little and Too Much at the Same TimeDetlef Fetchenhauer, David Dunning, and Thomas SchlösserChapter 9: Trust and Cooperation: Survey Evidence and Behavioral ExperimentsChristian ThöniChapter 10: The Future of Organizational Trust Research: A Content-Analytic Synthesis of Scholarly Recommendations and Review of Recent DevelopmentsBart A. de Jong, David P. Kroon, and Oliver SchilkePart III: Trust in Different CulturesChapter 11: Individualism-Collectivism, the Rule of Law, and General TrustToshio YamagishiChapter 12: The Influence of Globalization and Ethnic Fractionalization on Cooperation and Trust in KenyaNancy R. Buchan and Robert RolfeChapter 13: Improving Outcomes in the Trust Game: The Games People Choose in Oman, the United States, and VietnamIris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann, Maliheh Paryavi, Anh Tran, and Richard ZeckhauserChapter 14: Trust in African Villages: Experimental Evidence from Rural Sierra LeonePaul Hofman, Erwin Bulte, and Maarten Voors