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Non-Invasive Measurement Of Trust In Group Interactions, Lee A. Spitzley, Xinran Wang, Xunyu Chen, Steven J. Pentland, Jay F. Nunamaker, Judee K. Burgoon, Norah E. Dunbar

IT and Supply Chain Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Trust between group members has many implications for how well a group performs. In this study, we predict perceived trustworthiness of group members when there are subversive group members. We collected multimodal verbal and nonverbal data from a group interaction experiment. During the interaction, we periodically surveyed the group members about their perceptions of trustworthiness of other group members. We used this data to model the relationship between observable behavior and perceptions of trustworthiness. We report the most predictive features and describe them in the context of existing literature on verbal and nonverbal correlates of trust. This research advances the …