The perils of Pollyanna: Development of the over-trust construct

Arts & Humanities

• Trustees 100%
• Perils 89%
• Risk Taking 43%
• Self-monitoring 23%
• Prior Experience 23%
• Uncertainty 19%
• Habitual 18%
• Situational 17%
• Scandal 16%
• Interdependence 16%
• Exploitation 14%
• Threat 12%
• Causes 9%
• Evaluation 8%
• Economy 7%

Social Sciences

• recent corporate scandal 74%
• uncertainty 61%
• interdependence 39%
• exploitation 36%
• monitoring 29%
• contact 28%
• threat 26%
• economy 25%
• cause 23%
• management 19%
• evaluation 18%
• experience 12%

Business & Economics

• Risk Taking 43%
• Leniency 23%
• Self-monitoring 23%
• Task Interdependence 22%
• Corporate Scandal 21%
• Core Values 19%
• Uncertainty 19%
• Exploitation 14%
• Functioning 13%
• Threat 12%
• Evaluation 8%