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Summary: This article investigates cross-country differences in economic growth rates from a psychological perspective. Based on social capital theory it is argued that 1) financial honesty and trust are positively correlated with each other when they are aggregated on a country level and that 2) a high level of financial honesty and trust in a given country reduces transaction costs and thus stimulates economic growth. Using data from the World-Value-Surveys in 1981 and 1990 these hypotheses are empirically confirmed. The influence of social capital (i.e., financial honesty and trust) on economic growth was robust and substantial even if a number of relevant variables like gross national product (GNP), urbanization, economic inequality or the proportion of agriculture in gross domestic product were controlled. Thus, it seems worthwhile for economic psychology to further explore the influence of psychological determinants (like trust and honesty) on macroeconomic variables like economic growth or wealth.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Ethnic Terms Used in This Book -- 1 Introduction -- Brief History of Migration -- The Contemporary Situation -- Background -- The Evolution of this Study from Literacy Research -- Focus of the Study -- Lemon Grove Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Truth -- Anglo, Middle-Class Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Sociocultural Factors Contributing to Differential Language Use -- 2 The Community and Participants -- Community Demographics -- Data and Discussion -- The Community's gang -- Cast of Characters -- Tutors -- Literacy Participants -- Conclusion -- 3 The Social Power of Language -- Social Constructivism: From History to Current Theory -- Sociology of Knowledge -- Goffman and Face -- Speech Act Theory: Austin -- Speech Act Theory Continued: Grice -- Formalists -- Functionalists -- Formalism, Functionalism, and Developing Theories of Interpersonal Communication -- Conversation Analysis and Ethnography of Communication -- Critical Language Study -- Language and Power -- Politeness -- Brown and Levinson's Model -- Criticisms of the Brown and Levinson Model -- Examples of Politeness from the Conversations -- Epistemic Modals as Politeness Markers -- 4 Conducting the Research -- Data Collection -- Methodological Perspectives -- Factors in Data Collection -- Modal Auxiliaries -- Epistemic Modal Adverbs -- Lexical Verbs as Epistemic Modals -- The Relationship of Epistemic Modality to Evidentiality -- Epistemic Modals Selected for Study -- Conclusion -- 5 Conversational Data Part I: Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Evidential versus Non-Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Overview of Evidentials in the Conversations -- Evidential Modal Functions Used Differently by the Two Groups of Speakers