The Impact Of Third Party On Interpersonal Trust In Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal trust is established and developed gradually in the process ofhuman interaction, it is the lubricant in development of politics, economy, culture insociety. Moreover, interpersonal trust is a kind of social capitals, its value is enormousin the interpersonal interaction. The effect factors of interpersonal trust are various. Ata macro level, the politics, economy, culture in society could affect interpersonal trust,such as religion, race, etc. At a micro level, interpersonal relationships also influencethe development of interpersonal trust, such as social support which the individualacquires and his parenting pattern, etc. The most important effect factor is personaltraits, such as the type of attachment, personality, self-esteem. Accordingly, it can beseen that the researches are mostly at the centre of the dual subjects in interpersonaltrust. The pointcut of this article is the third party outside the dual subjects, exploringthe influence of the third party on interpersonal trust by changing the types andproperties of the third party.In this paper, we discuss three attributes of a third party which have someinfluence on interpersonal trust by simulating a real-life situation, mainly revolvingaround the information types of a third party. In this article, third-party informationtypes have been divided into two categories--positive and negative. First, we woulddo significance test which is about impacts on interpersonal trust between differenttypes of third party information. Second, we combined it with subject opinion andthird party which has different attributes respectively, verifying the robustness of“asymmetry principle of trust”. Exploring that if the impact of third party withdifferent attributes on interpersonal trust are different significantly, we discussed theinteractions among them. The results showed that:1. Impact of different types of third party on interpersonal trust is significantlydifferent; The impact of negative information of third party is much significant thanpositive information, which is called “asymmetry principle of trust”. 2. The showing of subject opinion will affect cognititive processing third partyinformation subsequently. When a subject has a positive view, negative informationprovided by a third party has more significant impact on interpersonal trust than thepositive information provided by a third party; When a subject holds a negative view,the impact of positive information provided by a third party on interpersonal trust isgreater than negative information provided by a third party.3. Opinion consistency between subject and third party has significant impact oninterpersonal trust. Namely, when the opinions between subject and third party are thesame, interpersonal trust level of subject changes smaller; When the opinions betweensubject and third party are inconsistent, interpersonal trust level of subject changesbigger.4. The main effect of the intimacy, information types of a third party oninterpersonal trust is significantly different, whereas the main effect of the amount ofa third party is not significant. In other words, when the third party has a intimaterelationship, negative information provided by a third party to subject, the impact oninterpersonal trust should be significantly greater than a loose connection, positiveinformation provided by a third party.5. The interaction between intimacy and information of a third party issignificantly different.On basis of conclusions above, this paper discusses the reasons and mechanismsfor this phenomenon, expounding the realistic significance about the conclusions. Theaim of this paper is to improve interpersonal trust strategy of college students, andclarify the importance of impression management where a third party is there in socialpsychology and human resources.