Cue Effect Of State Gratitude On Interpersonal Trust Repair

Interpersonal trust exists in all the interpersonal activities,it is an important factor to promote interpersonal harmony and social development,and it is the foundation of social stability and unity.However,trust violations often occur in the process of interpersonal interaction,leading to the breakdown of interpersonal relationships and many negative effects on individuals or groups.So many scholars begin to pay attention to the research of trust repair.There are many strategies for interpersonal trust repair.Starting from the strategies of moral emotion,this paper mainly aims to explore whether the influence of state gratitude on interpersonal.Trust repair can be promoted,and whether the influence of state gratitude on interpersonal.Trust repair is different under target cues and situational cues.This study consists of four experiments,in which the trust game paradigm and the imagination task are presented by a computer program,and carry on the descriptive statistical processing to the data,repeated measurement analysis of variance and simple effect analysis.Experiment1 was the influence of state gratitude on people’s trust repair was investigated by using single factor experiment design.Experiment 2 was2(emotional repair: state gratitude/neutral)×2(target cue:trustworthy/untrustworthy).The experimental design between the two subjects explored of state gratitude on interpersonal trust repair.Experiment 3 was designed between two factors 2(emotional repair: state gratitude/neutral)×2(situation cue: energy violation situation/integrity violation situation)to explore the situation cue effect of state gratitude on interpersonal trust repair.Experiment 4 was designed between threefactors 2(emotional fix: state gratitude/neutral)x 2(target clues: familiar with/strange)x 2(situation clues: a competency-based violating type situation/integrity and situation)to inspect the clues and situations under the joint action of the target.According to the experimental results and analysis,the following conclusions:1.State gratitude has an effect on people’s trust repair,and state gratitude has a better effect on repairing interpersonal trust violation than neutral condition.2.The repairing effect of state gratitude on interpersonal trust was restricted by target cues and there was no gender difference.When the target cue is credible,state gratitude promotes the repair of interpersonal trust.When the target cue was untrustworthy,state gratitude had no effect on the repair of interpersonal trust.3.State gratitude emotion on interpersonal trust repair effect is restricted by the situational clues and there is no gender difference.Only when the situation of interpersonal trust violation is a dynamic one can state gratitude promote the repairing effect of interpersonal trust.4.The influence of state gratitude on the repair of interpersonal trust is restricted by both target cue and situation cue,and when the target cue of the trusted party is familiar,state gratitude has better repair effect on interpersonal trust.This study found that state gratitude promotes the repair of interpersonal trust,so when there is a crisis of trust in interpersonal communication,we can use positive emotions of gratitude to improve interpersonal relationship.In addition,the repair effect of state gratitude on interpersonal trust is affected by target cues and situation cues,so it should be reasonably used according to specific practical situations.