The Effect of Competence Reputation on Ideal Affect Match and Trust

In this study, we are interested in examining whether providing reputational information about targets' competence will affect how much people transfer to excited and calm targets in an economic game (Trust Game). We expect that competence reputation will exert a weaker effect on transfers compared to trustworthiness reputation (which was manipulated in a prior study). In addition, we predict that East Asians will transfer more to calm than excited targets, whereas European Americans will not differ in the amount they transfer to calm versus excited targets. European Americans in the U.S. (N = 100) and Taiwanese (N = 100) will be recruited for this study.