# Met Toshio Yamagishi

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2002-06-22T09:10:19Z


He shows that in closed systems people who focus on the relationships of the members and who do not trust work well whereas in open systems where it is more important to find many trustworthy people, it was better to assume people were trustworthy at the beginning.
He is a social psychologists and talked about some experiments he did where he found that people who trusted people more generally did better in his open market simulations. He found that people who trusted people more tended to be better at quickly discerning the trustworthiness of the partner. He shows that in closed systems people who focus on the relationships of the members and who do not trust work well whereas in open systems where it is more important to find many trustworthy people, it was better to assume people were trustworthy at the beginning.

Anyway, I don't do his work justice with this small comment. His most recent paper is not yet available in Japanese, but his early work on trust is also very interesting and is available on his site.

Here is his web page.

http://lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp/members/yamagishi/english.htm




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