Trust, Values, Pro-Social Behaviors. Social Love In the Making.

Trust and values are two cornerstones of pro-social behaviors. They are complex concepts that require comprehensive theoretical and empirical exploration. The literature delves into various relationships among trust, values, and pro-social behavior, posing fundamental questions about their meanings and the contextual conditions that can favor or hinder their reciprocal connections. Trust and values are elusive concepts. Trust can be considered, according to Luhmann (1979), a mechanism that reduces uncertainty when people act in unpredictable situations. Values are systems of structured beliefs and stable principles that guide an individual's attitudes and behaviors (Schwartz, 2012). Both are necessary for understanding when deciding to act in pro-social behaviors, within the social environment from early childhood. Placing trust on the social ground, it gives weight to the collective dimension of action. Placing values on the social ground, it gives weight to individual action. The interaction and intersection between trust and values are key elements in the analysis of collective action, in which the benefits of actions are interpreted within the social love framework. Trust, enriched by values, can be defined as the collective, shared expectation that people exhibit sensible behavior oriented toward others' behavior when interacting with others. This session aims to encourage empirical and theoretical contributions on trust, values, and their relationship to pro-social behaviors, especially Social Love behaviors, to respond to the question: when trust and values come together, are they associated with the dimensions of Social Love: overabundance, care, universalism, recognition?