Publications

Culture and Trust

Books

Kwantes, C. T., & Kuo, B. C. H. (Eds.) (2021). Trust and Trustworthiness across Cultures: Implications for Societies and Workplaces. In S. Glazer & C.T. Kwantes (Series Eds.), Springer Series in Emerging Cultural Perspectives in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ***A number of members of the TRA contributed chapters to this book.

Book Chapters

Kwantes, C. T., & McMurphy, S. (2021). Contextual influences on trust and trustworthiness: An etic perspective. In C. T. Kwantes & B. C. H. Kuo (Eds.) Trust and Trustworthiness across Cultures: Implications for Societies and Workplaces. In S. Glazer & C.T. Kwantes (Series Eds.), Springer Series in Emerging Cultural Perspectives in Work Organizational, and Personnel Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Papers

Kwantes, C.T., Ghadiri, S., & McMurphy, S. (2026). Cultures of trust and trust in science. [Special Issue: Trust in Science and Beyond]. Current Opinion in Psychology, 67:102204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102204 Pekerti, A.A., & Kwantes, C.T. (2026). The dance of trust for multicultural individuals: Cognitive paradoxes and limitations in trust development. Human Resource Management Review, 36(3), 101144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2026.101144 Easterbrook, M., Grigoryan, L., Smith, P. … Kwantes, C.T., and others (2025). The social cure properties of groups across cultures: Groups provide more support but have stronger norms and are less curative in relationally immobile societies. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(7), 780-791. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241230847 Kwantes, C. T., Kuo, B. C. H., McMurphy, S., & Livingstone, J. (2025). Predictors of Generalized Trust: A Cross-Cultural Study of Canada, China, Taiwan, and the US. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 47(6), 391–403. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2025.2529512 Kuan, H.T., Rauti, C., Kwantes, C. T., & Soleimani, M. (2024). Exploring functional and dysfunctional aspects of interpersonal distrust. Psychological Reports, 69, 212-225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-024-00791-5 Kwantes, C. T., McMurphy, S., & Rauti, C. (2022). Trust, Social Representations, Culture, and Health Behaviours Related to COVID-19 [White Paper]. Trustworthiness Research Alliance. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22275.78887 [Full Document] Kwantes, C. T., & Kartolo, A. (2021). A 10 nation exploration of trustworthiness in the workplace. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 15(2), 146- 166. Kwantes, C. T., Idemudia, E. S., & Olasupo, M. O. (2018). Power distance and trustworthiness in organisations: A comparative study of perceptions in two countries. North American Journal of Psychology, 20(2), 341-358. Armstrong, K., Ravenell, K., McMurphy S., & Putt, M. (2007). Racial/ethnic differences in physician distrust in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 97(7), 1283- 1289. Armstrong, K., McMurphy, S., Dean, L., Micco, E., Putt, M., Halbert, C. H., Schwartz, J. S., Sankar, P., Pyeritz, R. E., Bernhardt, B., & Shea, J. (2008). Differences in the patterns of health care system distrust between blacks and whites. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(6), 827-833. Idemudia, E. S., Kwantes, C. T. & Olasupo, M. O. (2017). Pathways to trust and caution among South African university students. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 6, 503-506.

Presentations

Smyth, K., & Kwantes, C. T. Propensity to Trust: Impacted by personality, culture, or both? Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, US, 2022. [Presentation Slides] Kartolo, A., Kwantes, C. T., & Townsend, A. The Stereotype Content of Trustworthy Colleagues and Supervisors across 11 Nations. Presented at the 2021 SIOP Annual Conference, winner of the 2021 SIOP Best International Poster award. Kwantes, C. T. & Adair, W.L. (Chairs) (May, 2020). Bringing Indigenous Voices to Industrial Organizational Psychology. Panel Discussion accepted for presentation at the 2020 SIOP Annual Conference, Austin, TX. [Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic]. Kartolo, A., Kwantes, C. T., & Townsend, A. The Stereotype Content of Trustworthy Colleagues and Supervisors across 11 Nations. Accepted for presentation at the 2020 SIOP Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 2020. [Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic]. Kanazawa, Y., Kwantes C. T., & Watanabe, S. Examining trustworthiness in Canadian and Japanese cultural context: How to quantify the distance between two groups each consisting of 3-dimensionally estimated objects? Presented at the RIMS Kokyuroku Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 2019. Kwantes, C. T., McMurphy, S., Kanazawa, Y., & Kuo, B. C. H. (2018, March). Trustworthiness in the Canadian Context. Presented at the 19th Baysian Statistics Conference, Keio University, Japan. Lutz, A., Reich, C. Kartolo, A., Mullins, M., & Kwantes, C.T. Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, Age, and Parental Status: Trust in Leadership. Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL, US, 2018. Kartolo, A., Burr, C. A., & Kwantes, C. T. Are Trustworthy Descriptors Similar Across Cultures and Role Relationships? A Qualitative Comparison of Trustworthy Friends and Family from Canada and Taiwan. Accepted for presentation at the 2018 Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Guelph, ON, Canada, 2018. dos Santos Pereira, J. J., Talaei, A., Kartolo, A., Nascimento de Oliveira, A. & Kwantes, C. T. A cross-cultural exploratory comparison of trust in interpersonal relationships. Accepted for presentation at the 2018 Conference of the International Association for Cross- Cultural Psychology, Guelph, ON, Canada, 2018. Kwantes, C. T., Kanazawa, Y., & Watanabe, S. Prediction of Generalized Caution in Canada and Japan. Presented at the 77th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2016. Kwantes, C. T., & Porto, J. Differential Predictors of Generalized Trust in Brazil and Canada. Presented at the 77th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2016. Kartolo, A., Kwantes, C. T., Burr, C., Erdelyan, A., McCulloch, J., & Ng, P. Cross-cultural Descriptions of Untrustworthiness: Relational vs Dispositional. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA, 2016. Stonefish, T., Kwantes, C. T., Abunya, A., Ng, P., Sytnyk, A. Is Trust in the Head or the Heart?: A Cross-cultural Examination by Gender Roles. Presented at the 77th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2016. Kwantes, C. T., Bond, M. H., & Leung, K. Perceptions of Just Practice Moderate the Relationship between Social Cynicism and Organizational Cynicism. Presented at the 23rd International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan, 2016. Kwantes, C. T., Kartolo, A., Stonefish, T., & Chekole, Y. A. Generalized Trust and Caution across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Geographic Regions. Presented at the 23rd International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan, 2016. Lin, I., & Kwantes, C. T. A Cross-Cultural Examination of Trust in the Workplace: Conceptualizations of trustworthiness in the US, Canada, Taiwan, and People’s Republic of China. Presented at the 22nd International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Reims, France, 2014. Lin, I., Kwantes, C. T., Kuo, B. C. H., Leupold, C., & Zhao, C. Culture and Caution: A contextual analysis. Presented at the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, France, 2014.