The results indicated that trust violations are processed in social cognitive-related brain areas. Specifically, the results identified the significance of the default mode network (DMN), relevant to the processing of social information, in trust violation and further isolated distinct activity for each of the 3 trust violations.

Integrity violations demonstrated the greatest reaction in the DMN. Benevolence violations generated the next greatest reaction (meaning that the two people in the recording being unconcerned about wasting each other's time had a less serious implication compared to the integrity violation). However, this was not significantly different from the ability violations.

In regards to the integrity violations generating the greatest response in the DMN, one should note that the DMN plays a role in helping to navigate social interactions. With this in mind, this particular integrity violation would lead to the trustor/participant being less likely to take risks with the other individual.