We study how Swedish citizens updated their institutional and interpersonal trust as the
corona crisis evolved from an initial phase to an acute phase in the spring of 2020. The …

Interpersonal trust is an important source of social and economic development. Over
decades, researchers debated the question whether and how public institutions influence …

" This Handbook covers social and political trust. Essays cover the foundations of both types
of trust, whether they have common or different roots. The Handbook includes essays on …

The concept of trust is regarded as one of the essential building blocks of social science
theory. It has been studied across a variety of disciplines and has even been equated with …

Generalized social trust concerns the expectancy about the trustworthiness of strangers, that
is, people we do not have any information about (Rotter, 1971). Consequently, generalized …

IN the volumes of research on social trust, no question has received more attention than that
of the potential consequences of ethnic diversity for social trust. The cause of this attraction …

While a new, growing subset of the literature argues that armed conflict does not necessarily
erode social cohesion in the postwar era, we challenge this perspective and examine how …

Research on the foundations of social trust mainly concentrates on the evaluation of one's
social environment. Empirical evidence focusing on the psychological origins of social trust …

The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly
few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We …

Generalized trust, the belief that most other people can be trusted, has positive
consequences for health and wellbeing. An increased sense of community is often seen in …