Trust is key to understanding the dynamics of social relations, to the extent that it is often
viewed as the glue that holds society together. We review the mounting sociological …

Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing
ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies, but few clear …

This study uses Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory to explain variance in consumer trust
in e-commerce. We model trust as a combination of a consumer's disposition to trust and …

This paper reviews research in place attachment and organizes the material into three
sections: research, method, and theory. A review of several hundred empirical and …

Trust in state institutions is a prominent explanation of social trust. However, previous—
mainly cross-sectional—analyses provide limited causal evidence regarding the relationship …

Generalized trust has become a paramount topic throughout the social sciences, in its own
right and as the key civic component of social capital. To date, cross-national research relies …

In the last 2 decades attention to causal (and formative) indicators has grown.
Accompanying this growth has been the belief that one can classify indicators into 2 …

We argue that residential exposure to ethnic diversity reduces social trust. Previous within-
country analyses of the relationship between contextual ethnic diversity and trust have been …

" 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 Covid‐19 pandemic brought unprecedented governmental restrictions to personal and
political freedoms. This article investigates individual‐level differences in mass support for …