Thomas Schlösser

TL;DR: It is suggested that religiosity substantially increases subjective well-being if it is considered normative in a certain national context and that in religious countries, religious people report being treated with more respect, which partially explains their higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction.

TL;DR: It is argued that people trust due to a norm mandating that they show respect for the other person's character, presuming theother person has sufficient integrity and goodwill even if they do not believe it privately.

TL;DR: This paper found that the Krajc-Ortmann framework failed to anticipate self-evaluative misperceptions on the part of poor performers, but that it did much better at accounting for misperception among top performers.

TL;DR: This article examined participants' preference for punitive and compensatory actions, while also exploring emotional determinants and boundary conditions, and found that participants actually compensated victims more than they punished offenders and that the majority of participants assigned both interventions.

TL;DR: This paper found that people trust even when their expectations of reward fall below their general tolerance for risk, even when they have been assigned to a specific counterpart in the game, even though their economic expectations and payoffs remain unchanged.