The present study aims to investigate whether subliminal stimuli can influence interpersonal trust and to explore the mediating mechanisms. Participants were required to do a lexical decision task while the “trust” or “suspicion” Chinese words were embedded as the subliminal stimuli. Afterward, they played a trust game and reported person and situation perception. Results indicate that compared with exposure to “suspicion” subliminal stimuli, exposure to “trust” subliminal stimuli significantly improved interpersonal trust. Furthermore, person perception mediated the influence of subliminal stimuli on interpersonal trust, but situation perception did not. The results suggest that subliminal priming techniques can influence interpersonal trust, and such impact is mediated by person perception.

中文翻译：

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阈下刺激对人际信任的影响：一种可能的机制。

本研究旨在调查潜意识刺激是否可以影响人际信任并探索中介机制。要求参与者做词汇决策任务，同时将“信任”或“怀疑”中文单词嵌入为潜意识刺激。之后，他们玩了一个信任游戏，并报告了人和情况的感知。结果表明，与“怀疑”潜意识刺激相比，“信任”潜意识刺激显着改善了人际信任。此外，人的知觉介导了阈下刺激对人际信任的影响，但情境知觉却没有。结果表明，阈下启动技术可以影响人与人之间的信任，而这种影响是由人的知觉所介导的。