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Is security still the chiefest enemy? The challenges and contradictions in European confidence- and security-building in the Cold War Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Thomas Hughes
The regime of Confidence- (and Security-) Building Measures (C(S)BMs) represented an effort to re-imagine Arms Control in Europe and reduce the possibility of unwanted escalation due to misundersta...
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Police legitimacy in the making: the underlying social forces for police legitimacy among religious communities Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Dikla Yogev
Literature focusing on race and policing has consistently reported a decline in recent years in police legitimacy among minority communities. Yet, the effect of religion on policing has not receive...
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Conspiracy mentality differently shapes interpersonal trust when money or digital privacy is at stake Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Michael Schepisi, Biljana Gjoneska, Silvia Mari, Maria Serena Panasiti, Giuseppina Porciello, Roland Imhoff
To believe in conspiracy theories is to suspect that (powerful) others are plotting behind one’s back. Conspiracy beliefs might be therefore an issue of (dis)trust. In this study, we sought to expl...
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Impact and (the Journal of) Trust Research Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Guido Möllering, Joseph A. Hamm
Published in Journal of Trust Research (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2023)
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Inviting Submissions to the Special Issue on trust and vulnerability (Deadline 31 August 2024) Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Simon Schafheitle, Antoinette Weibel, Guido Möllering
Published in Journal of Trust Research (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2023)
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Improving media trust research through better measurement: An item response theory perspective Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Frank Mangold
While trust in news media has come to the forefront of scholarly and public debate in recent years, academic researchers have raised persistent concern that measurement issues have prevented a better understanding of the concept. This research introduces an item response theory (IRT) perspective to advance the state-of-the-art in media trust measurement beyond recent conceptual and analytical progress
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When the gig isn’t up: The importance (and relevance) of trust on gig workers’ performance and commitment Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Rachel Campagna, Jennifer Griffith
Millions of employees are now classified as gig workers – a subset of contingent employees with alternative employment arrangements. This type of work arrangement can be beneficial for both managers (e.g. cost savings, specialised skillsets) and employees (e.g. work preferences such as flexibility). Yet little research has addressed how trust for a manager might factor into gig workers’ performance
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Existential insecurity and trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Germany Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Jan Delhey, Leonie C. Steckermeier, Klaus Boehnke, Franziska Deutsch, Jan Eichhorn, Ulrich Kühnen, Christian Welzel
ABSTRACT In many, but not all situations it is easier to be trusting from a position of security. This paper addresses trust’s relationship with perceived insecurities induced by the coronavirus pandemic. Looking at social trust (trust in strangers) and institutional trust (trust in the government and in the public health-care system), we explore whether individuals’ trust is negatively or positively
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A review of experimental research on organizational trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Oliver Schilke, Andy Powell, Maurice E. Schweitzer
ABSTRACT Trust profoundly shapes organisational, group, and dyadic outcomes. Reflecting its importance, a substantial and growing body of scholarship has investigated the topic of trust. Much of this work has used experiments to identify clear, causal relationships. However, in contrast to theoretical work that conceptualises trust as a multi-faceted (e.g. ability, benevolence, integrity), multi-level
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The lesser of two evils: Approaching trust with Bourdieu’s habitus Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jermaine S. Ma
ABSTRACT In this paper I borrow from sociological scholars and theories in order to approach trust(ing) with Bourdieu's habitus. I demonstrate the use of a conceptual framework comprised of three sociological theories in the context of a subset of women in urbanising Türkiye who belong to, what I call, a gecekondu habitus. Throughout this paper I discuss the necessity of viewing interpersonal trust
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Gender differences in the stability of trust and risk-taking Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Doron Sonsino, Max Shifrin, Eyal Lahav
The individual willingness to trust is compared to the inclination to take lottery risk in six distinct scenarios, controlling the return distributions. Trust responds to changes in the admissible return levels, but exhibits significantly smaller responsiveness to return expectations compared to parallel risk-taking. Paired comparisons suggest that the investors sacrifice 5% of the expected payoff
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Trust and trust-linked elements in the formation of tourism networks in Brazil and Spain Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-03-30 David Leonardo Bouças da Silva, Valmir Emil Hoffmann, Luis Martínez-Cháfer
While there is evidence of the positive influence of trust in cooperation development, in situations where trust is unfeasible, trust-linked elements are needed. In this investigation, trust-linked elements are considered to be contracts, supporting institutions (SIs), and reciprocity. This research aims to determine the role of trust and/or trust-linked elements in the formation of tourism business
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Assessing trust with injected health information in Poland’s healthcare system: Lay people versus healthcare workers Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Roman Lewandowski, Anatoliy G. Goncharuk, Giuseppe T. Cirella
Health information can influence patient trust and is vital to the healthcare system of a country. This study comparatively assesses trust levels within Poland’s healthcare system from two perspectives: non-healthcare workers (i.e. lay people) and healthcare workers. Four trust indicators, i.e. the payer, visiting or consulting with a physician, the medical profession, and hospitals are used to test
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Distrust: A critical review exploring a universal distrust sequence Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Frédérique E. Six, Dominika Latusek
ABSTRACT In this article, we review the distrust literature and explore whether the universal sequence for trust as outlined by Dietz (2011) and Dietz and Den Hartog (2006) is also true for distrust. Compared to trust, there is much less research on distrust, although the field has been rapidly developing in recent years. We argue that it is time to explore a universal sequence for distrust to take
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Integration, culture, and trust: A case study of minority integration in Israeli academy Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Ran Ben-Malka, Sharon Hadad, Reut Megidish
ABSTRACT This study examined the effects of joint academic study involving minority students from the Bedouin population in Israel with the general population on out-group and in-group trust. Using a modified version of the trust game as a serial game with complete information and 135 students from both populations in a joint academic programme, we found that the level of trust of the Bedouin students
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The look in your eyes: The role of pupil dilation in disguising the perception of trustworthiness Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Matia Okubo, Kenta Ishikawa, Takato Oyama, Yoshihiko Tanaka
Pupil size reflects the cognitive and affective states of the beholder and thus shapes interpersonal impressions. Individuals with dilated pupils are evaluated more positively than those with constricted pupils. The present study investigated the role of pupil dilation in building interpersonal trust. We used face photographs taken by Okubo et al. (2017), in which models (N = 81) were posed as trustworthy
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Handing over to our new Editor Joe Hamm Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Guido Möllering
Published in Journal of Trust Research (Vol. 12, No. 2, 2022)
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The space between: Trustworthiness and trust in the police among three immigrant groups in Australia Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, Kristina Murphy, Elise Sargeant
Research regularly finds significant variation in the perceived trustworthiness of police across different social groups. For example, studies from a number of different countries have shown that people from particular ethnic and racial minority groups tend to have less positive evaluations and lower expectations of police effectiveness, benevolence and integrity, compared to their majority group counterparts
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Trust in science and scientists: Effects of social attitudes and motivations on views regarding climate change, vaccines and gene drive technology Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Henry G. W. Dixson, Aimée F. Komugabe-Dixson, Fabien Medvecky, Jovana Balanovic, Helene Thygesen, Edith A. MacDonald
Trust in science and scientists (TSS) is an increasingly important topic with respect to how science is applied within society. However, its role regarding specific issues may vary depending upon other psychosocial factors. In this study, we investigated how trust interacts with social attitudes and motivations to shape views on scientific issues in New Zealand (N = 8,199; 74.7% New Zealand European
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Learning to trust in social enterprises: The contribution of organisational culture to trust dynamics Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Maria Luisa Farnese, Paula Benevene, Barbara Barbieri
General models for trust development in organisations suggest a linear path founded on three bases (calculus, knowledge, identification). Seeking to capture a more dynamic nature for the trust development pathway, this study focuses on the role of organisational culture in shaping these paths by conveying sensemaking processes. Through exploratory group interviews, we examined how trust can be boosted
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Secrets, trust, and transparency: Navigating between influence and accountability as trusted intermediary Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Morten Frederiksen, Uffe Kjærgaard Hansen
Secrecy is usually considered destructive to trust. However, people are often involved in conflicting social commitments in which transparency to one trustor may violate the trust of others. Georg Simmel suggests that secrecy can serve important social purposes; consequently, strategically balancing transparency and secrecy can be conducive to social cooperation and building intersubjective trust.
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Dysfunctional trusting and distrusting: Integrating trust and bias perspectives Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Volker Patent
ABSTRACT This paper offers an integrative review of the concept of dysfunctional trust from a trust and bias research perspective. Trust and cognitive/social biases are isomorphically related concepts in their functions as reducers of cognitive effort and facilitators/inhibitors of action. In the case of dysfunctional trust and distrust, bias perspectives contribute theoretically to a framework for
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Be yourself or adapt yourself? Authenticity, self-monitoring, behavioural integrity, and trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Brenda Nguyen, Hannes Leroy, Carol Gill, Tony Simons
Prior work has offered good arguments to trust both authentic and self-monitoring individuals, yet these two constructs have been described as incompatible and even opposite. This tension raises the question of which strategy will best build trust: Be yourself or adapt yourself? Informed by theory on private and public selves at work, this paper argues that both self-monitoring and authenticity behaviours
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The shaking nest of trust: A case study of funding reform in a higher education organization Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Päivi Kosonen, Mirjami Ikonen, Taina Savolainen
ABSTRACT The purpose of the current paper is to examine the development in the nature of followers’ trust in the leader during funding reform oriented organisational changes in a higher education organisation (HEO). Funding systems of HEOs are subjects of public reform. This development has pushed the organisations towards more business-oriented management and organisational culture and has created
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How representative surveys measure public (dis)trust in science: A systematisation and analysis of survey items and open-ended questions Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Anne Reif, Lars Guenther
ABSTRACT Over the past several years, scholars have debated the public’s (dis)trust in science. Since the ‘science and society’ paradigm of science communication has defined the crisis of trust between science and the public as a major concern, this article is interested in how public (dis)trust in science is measured in representative surveys of public perceptions of science and technology. The goal
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‘You can’t be careful enough’: Measuring interpersonal trust during a pandemic Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Dag Wollebæk, Audun Fladmoe, Kari Steen-Johnsen
ABSTRACT Empirical results regarding the role of interpersonal trust in the pandemic setting have been inconsistent. We argue that one explanation may be an inherent weakness in the standard measure of generalised trust, requesting respondents to choose between the options ‘most people can be trusted' and ‘you can't be careful enough in dealing with people'. The item measures two inter-related yet
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The effects of transparency perceptions on trustworthiness perceptions and trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Edward C. Tomlinson, Andrew Schnackenberg
ABSTRACT Transparency is recognised as vital to ensuring employee trust in managers. However, prior measures of transparency have made it difficult to discern the precise influence of transparency on trust. We posit that separate dimensions of transparency perceptions (disclosure, clarity, and accuracy) uniquely influence perceptions of trustworthiness (ability, benevolence, and integrity). We also
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Public trust in governments, health care providers, and the media during pandemics: A systematic review Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Umair Majid, Aghna Wasim, Judy Truong, Simran Bakshi
ABSTRACT Among the most important factors that determine whether public health recommendations receive widespread adherence during pandemics is public trust in the information disseminated by governments, health care providers, and the media. However, there remains uncertainty pertaining to the role of public trust in the acceptance and maintenance of public health recommendations during outbreaks
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Trust is political Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Guido Möllering
(2021). Trust is political. Journal of Trust Research: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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A stranger thing? Sweden as the upside down of multilevel trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Gissur Ó. Erlingsson
ABSTRACT As a rule, citizens appreciate local more than central government. This paper proposes a new research agenda for multilevel trust studies by arguing that it is premature to believe that citizen’s proximity to officials by definition trumps distance. As in country-comparative studies, close attention needs to be paid to institutional quality in analyses of multilevel trust. To put this argument
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Trust in the American political parties and support for public policy: Why Republicans benefit from political distrust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Matthew L. Bergbower, Levi G. Allen
While political trust is well researched by political scientists, little attention has been paid to the repercussions of citizens’ lack of trust in the major political parties. Political parties are the institutions responsible for forming governing coalitions and channelling the policy preferences of the majorities that elected them; thus, we hypothesise that distrust in the parties can have some
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The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Aki Koivula, Sanna Malinen, Arttu Saarinen
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how political trust is associated with participation in political discussions on social media and voting activity. We explore whether social media can provide platforms for those who are passive in terms of formal political participation. Our data were derived from a representative survey based on a sample collected in 2017 from the Finnish population register (N = 2470)
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Trust, experience and embodied knowledge or lessons from John Dewey on the dangers of abstraction Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Adam Seligman
This paper explores the connection between trust and confidence on the one hand and different forms of knowledge (abstract and general viz. particular and concrete) on the other. While the distinction between trust and confidence was first made by Niklas Luhmann their connection to forms of knowledge and so attitudes towards difference is new. Making use of insights afforded to us by John Dewey, I
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Customer trust and perceived service quality in the healthcare sector: Customer aggressive behaviour as a mediator Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Amit Gur
ABSTRACT Most healthcare providers experience some form of aggressive behaviour by patients and their relatives (i.e. customers). Customer aggressive behaviour (CAB) is detrimental to customers and healthcare providers, as well as to the overall service quality provided by the healthcare organisation. Drawing on the Social Exchange Theory, the purpose of the study was to examine whether customers’
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A nonverbal signal of trustworthiness: An evolutionarily relevant model Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Andy Wood
ABSTRACT This study introduces and provides evidence of an Evolutionarily Stable Signalling (ESS) System in the buyer-seller context through three experiments. An ESS system is one where a signaller (in this study, the seller) conveys positive intent to the receiver (customers) in a reliable manner that leads to the buyer’s benefits. This study uses the ‘felt’ or genuine smile of salespeople as a reliable
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Character strengths as predictors of trust and cooperation in economic decision-making Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Steven G. Young, Robert E. McGrath
ABSTRACT Cooperation occupies nearly every aspect of human life. While previous research focuses on how situational factors and personality predict cooperation, less is known about how specific character strengths predict cooperation. In Study 1, we find that higher Self-Control values and lower Inquisitiveness values were associated with a larger contribution in the Trust Game. In Study 2, we find
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Communicating (about) trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Guido Möllering
(2020). Communicating (about) trust. Journal of Trust Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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We can’t go on together with suspicious minds: Forecasting errors in evaluating the appreciation of denials Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, David De Cremer, Maarten Wubben, Marius van Dijke
ABSTRACT In light of public examples of false denials, it is unsurprising that people’s beliefs about denials often are negative. However, inconsistent with such beliefs, denials often are sincere, and can facilitate trust repair. To illuminate this mismatch, we advance a framework based on Construal Level Theory, to explain how people may make a forecasting error when predicting their responses to
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Trust in contemporary society Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2020-04-07 Reinhard Bachmann
(2020). Trust in contemporary society. Journal of Trust Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 108-111.
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Contracts as trust builders Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2020-01-04 Markus Järvinen, Minna Branders
Cooperative relationships require trust. Trust, on the other hand, requires a framework, i.e. an environment, in which it can be built. Numerous studies have focused on the antecedents of trust. For example, various trust-building factors have been identified in these studies. However, there is no comprehensive study exploring the ways in which contracts support the trust-building environment. This
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Towards a research agenda on how, when and why trust and distrust matter to coopetition Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Angelos Kostis, Malin Harryson Näsholm
ABSTRACT Trust has been acknowledged as an important aspect of interorganizational relationships. Yet, limited attention has been paid to the importance of trust in the light of coopetitive interactions, i.e. simultaneously cooperating and competing. Research on trust has started to acknowledge that more trust may not always be better, and that trust and distrust are separate and distinct phenomena
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The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
ABSTRACT This paper puts forward the argument that the concept of the language of trust and trustworthiness can be a useful way of understanding what trust means in specific situations. This concept refers to linguistic devices – verbal and non-verbal – which purposefully convey trust and create a foundation for continuing or improving relations. The concept has been developed based on research into
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International variations in fiduciary and competence trust of physicians: A multilevel study Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Robert R. Martin
ABSTRACT This article examines how public trust in physicians varies across two primary dimensions: trust in physicians' technical competence and in their fiduciary duty to prioritise patients' interests above their own. While prior empirical studies explain variations in trust of physicians primarily by focusing on patients' individual characteristics, trust differences across national borders remain
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Putting a spotlight on the trustor in trust research Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Guido Möllering
One important reason why trust and trustworthiness should not be confounded (e.g. Hardin, 2002) is that the latter focuses our attention mainly on the trustee and away from the trustor. Even when we are careful to talk about ‘perceived trustworthiness’ (e.g. Mayer, Davis, & Schoorman, 1995, p. 715, Figure 1, emphasis added) – which should convey that it is up to trustors to interpret any cues of trustworthiness
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The birdcage is open, but will the bird fly? How interactional and institutional trust interplay in public organisations Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Tina Øllgaard Bentzen
ABSTRACT In the wake of New Public Management reforms, the prospect of increasing task performance by building trust within public organisations has awoken renewed interest in the public sector. The focus has, however, predominantly been on strengthening leaders’ trust in employees by offering the latter greater autonomy, while employees’ decisions to accept and return trust have received less attention
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‘Jumper’ managers’ vulnerable involvement/avoidance and trust/distrust spirals Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Reuven Shapira
ABSTRACT Earlier ascending/descending trust spirals have been explained by the job discretion allowed to employees by managers; few have studied such spirals as this has required a bi-directional longitudinal framework. Such a framework has used ethnographies of managers who ‘jumped’ from other organisations and suffered gaps of knowledge that curbed their psychological safety. Gap-exposing vulnerable
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Qualitative meta-analysis of propensity to trust measurement Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Volker Patent, Rosalind H. Searle
ABSTRACT In a rapidly changing and dynamic world, individuals’ propensity to trust is likely to become an increasingly important facet for understanding human behaviour, yet its measurement has mostly been unexplored. We undertake the first systematic qualitative survey of propensity to trust scales using qualitative meta-analysis methodology to review the literature (1966–2018) and identify 26 measures
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Trust me, I am a caring coach: The benefits of establishing trustworthiness during coaching by communicating benevolence Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Sandra J. Schiemann, Christina Mühlberger, F. David Schoorman, Eva Jonas
ABSTRACT A client's trust in the coach is essential for a well-functioning coaching interaction. This trust depends on the coach's trustworthiness in terms of ability, integrity, and benevolence. In three mixed-method studies, we investigated how these components of trustworthiness were established by the coach asking inexperienced (N1 = 42) and experienced (N2 = 29) coaches as well as clients (N3 = 24)
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Trust and emergency management: Experiences from the Arctic Sea region Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Ensieh Roud, Anne Haugen Gausdal
ABSTRACT Trust has long been identified as an essential component in different disciplines. However, trust in the context of emergency management is a less often researched phenomenon. This article intends to enrich our theoretical understanding of trust by exploring the role of interorganisational trust and the process of trust development across phases of emergency management. To achieve this, a
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Linking precursors of interpersonal trust to human-automation trust: An expanded typology and exploratory experiment Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Christopher S. Calhoun, Philip Bobko, Jennie J. Gallimore, Joseph B. Lyons
ABSTRACT This study provides an initial experimental investigation of the extent to which well-known precursors of interpersonal trust (ability, benevolence, integrity, or ABI) will manifest when assessing trust between a human and a non-human referent (e.g. an automated aid). An additional motivation was the meta-analytic finding that the ABI model only explains about half of the variation in interpersonal
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Attending to the importance of context: Trust as a process in global microfinance Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Barbara Grimpe
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that trust is often not a given but grows over time, in a process including various steps of trust-building. In a similar and interrelated vein, the context within which trust emerges is not a given but is continuously processed by the actors involved. The paper explores this understudied research area, namely actors’ continuous efforts in shaping the context of
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Connecting trust and power Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Guido Möllering
The Journal of Trust Research (JTR) is growing. Across indicators such as articles handled, downloaded and cited, the rate of growth is around 15% per year according to the Publisher’s Report of January 2019. Beyond plain numbers, which could be even better but are encouraging nevertheless, I am pleased to see that the journal increasingly fulfils its mission to be a truly interdisciplinary forum (Möllering
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On measuring trust and distrust in journalism: Reflection of the status quo and suggestions for the road ahead Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Katherine M. Engelke, Valerie Hase, Florian Wintterlin
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of research on trust and distrust in the news media and the plethora of methodological approaches that accompany it leads us to critically reflect the status quo and make suggestions for the road ahead. Following a brief overview of conceptual definitions of trust and distrust as well as of related concepts used in journalism studies, we turn to our main endeavour by
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Dynamic influences of power on trust: Changes in power affect trust in others Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-12-31 Sebastien Brion, Ruo Mo, Robert B. Lount
ABSTRACT Though much research has examined the trust development process, we know little about how changes in one’s power impact trust development. Building on relevant literatures, we propose that independent of one’s absolute power, trust increases (or decreases) as a function of how much power individuals gain (or lose) over time. We find support for our hypotheses in a multisource nine-month longitudinal
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Unlocking the treasure trove: How can Luhmann’s theory of trust enrich trust research? Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Frens Kroeger
ABSTRACT This contribution takes the 50th anniversary of the original edition of Vertrauen, and the publication of a new translation of Trust and Power, as an opportunity to reconsider Niklas Luhmann’s contribution to, and further promise for, trust research. It demonstrates the manifold ways in which Luhmann’s insights can inform trust research, without therefore having to subscribe to Luhmann’s systems
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The genetic and psychological underpinnings of generalized social trust Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-07-19 Aaron C. Weinschenk, Christopher T. Dawes
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the genetic and psychological underpinnings of generalized social trust, an orientation that refers to one's expectations about the trustworthiness of strangers. We make a number of contributions to the literature. First, using a new dataset containing information on a large sample of German twin pairs (N = 1980 pairs), we replicate previous studies on the heritability
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Conceptualising time as a level of analysis: New directions in the analysis of trust dynamics Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-07-03 M. Audrey Korsgaard, Jason Kautz, Paul Bliese, Katarzyna Samson, Patrycjusz Kostyszyn
ABSTRACT Theory on trust development, dissolution, and restoration suggest that trust is a dynamic state that varies in predictable and often systematic ways. Empirical research, however, lags behind the theoretical development, particularly with respect to understanding the trajectory of trust. This article reviews theory on dynamics of trust and some of the limitations in empirical research on these
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Trust development processes in intra-organisational relationships: A multi-level permeation of trust in a merging university Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Sari-Johanna Karhapää, Taina Inkeri Savolainen
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a model to study the trust development processes in intra-organisational relationships at multiple levels. The model is applied to explore a multi-level permeation of trust in a merger. More specifically, the empirical study focuses on how trust develops at different organisational levels in the context of a merger of two universities into one entity. The study applies
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Contextualising the coevolution of (dis)trust and control – a longitudinal case study of a public market Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Lena Högberg, Birgitta Sköld, Malin Tillmar
ABSTRACT Research into the dynamics of trust–control is still inconclusive. In this paper, we offer an in-depth understanding of how (dis)trust and control coevolve as embedded in multiple dimensions of context. The paper focuses on public markets, a context which is underrepresented in extant studies on trust and control. Our analysis is based on a longitudinal case study of interorganisational relationships
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Trust development across levels of analysis: An embedded-agency perspective Journal of Trust Research Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Fabrice Lumineau, Oliver Schilke
ABSTRACT This article advances a cross-level model of trust development. Drawing upon an embedded-agency perspective from institutional theory, we combine a top-down with a bottom-up approach, reflecting the inherent duality of trust in organisational settings. Specifically, we elaborate a reciprocal process that illustrates how organisational structures influence individuals’ trust and, at the same