What makes us trust people? How is trust developed and maintained? Is Western society
facing a crisis of trust? The Psychology of Trust addresses trust issues that are directly …

This chapter reviews the research addressing the disposition to trust and trustworthiness. It
reviews the conceptual and empirical research on the role of affect as a base of trust …

Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals,
groups, and organizations. The Psychology of Interpersonal Trust: Theory and Research …

Based on in-depth interviews designed to determine what trust is, how it is built, and how it is
destroyed, this important new resource provides extensive insight into the fundamental …

Trust: 1. Goes beyond self-interest but has limits 2. Entails a state of mind and a type of
action 3. May concern competence or intentions 4. Is based on information and the lack of it …

Trust plays a pervasive role in social affairs, even sustaining acts of cooperation among
strangers who have no control over each other's actions. But the full importance of trust is …

In this chapter we discuss issues associated with operationalizing trust as a psychological
state comprising one's willingness to accept vulnerability, and the measurement of resultant …

In this chapter we discuss issues associated with operationalizing trust as a psychological
state comprising one's willingness to accept vulnerability and the measurement of resultant …

The past two decades have seen an explosion in the research on trust as well as a growing
lay interest in a consideration of trust as a key factor in many domains in our lives. From the …

What makes trust such a powerful concept? Is it merely that in trust the whole range of social
forces that we know play together? Or is it that trust involves a peculiar element beyond …