Trust seems to become established even in scenarios where the prerequisites for trust are complicated by conditions that evoke scepticism. Nonetheless, trust emerges, a phenomenon that is to be comprehended and examined in the present experimental inquiry. In order to comprehensively capture the process, a competitive online game environment was used to document the development of trust networks, directionality, and strength using network analysis. Despite the conditions conducive to distrust in this game setting, acts of trust were exhibited.Robust trust bonds persisting over the course of gameplay appear to manifest mostly dyadic or triadic, with participant embeddedness within the network and homophily in terms of general trustfulness towards strangers being conducive factors for trust bonding and game survivability. This study hence contributes to the overall understanding of online trust development and offers several further research opportunities in a mostly unexplored field.

即使在信任的先决条件因引起怀疑的条件而变得复杂的情况下，信任似乎也能建立起来。尽管如此，信任还是出现了，这是一种在当前的实验探究中需要理解和检验的现象。为了全面捕捉这一过程，我们使用竞争性在线游戏环境，通过网络分析来记录信任网络的发展、方向性和强度。尽管在这种游戏环境中存在有利于不信任的条件，但还是表现出了信任行为。在游戏过程中持续存在的强大信任纽带似乎主要表现为二元或三元，参与者嵌入网络中，并且在对陌生人的普遍信任方面具有同质性信任纽带和博弈生存能力的有利因素。因此，这项研究有助于对在线信任发展的整体理解，并在一个尚未探索的领域提供了一些进一步的研究机会。