What is Trust? A Multidisciplinary Review, Critique, and Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B G Robbins (0000-0002-6609-0964, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 972-986 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12391 |
| OpenAlex | W2531109105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 78 |
Despite decades of interdisciplinary research on trust, the literature remains fragmented and balkanized with little consensus regarding its origins. This review documents how this came to be and attempts to offer a solution. Specifically, it evaluates issues of conceptualization found in the trust literature. I recommend that we move away from varieties of trust – multidimensional conceptualizations of trust – and toward a single trust concept built around four essential properties: actor A's beliefs, actor B's trustworthiness, the matter(s) at hand, and unknown outcomes. I finish the article by proposing a synthetic structural‐cognitive theoretical framework for investigating the causes and consequences of trust in everyday life
Cognition · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Everyday life · Multidisciplinary approach · Social science · Sociology · Trustworthiness · Computer Science · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Falling Behind, Losing Trust
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Environmental attitudes and the politics of distrust
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Institutional Foundations of Trust
Differentiated Trust Strategies and Rebellious Acceptance
Identity and Trust in Bosnia & Hercegovina
Integrative and Exclusionary Roles of Trust in Timber Value Chain in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
Growing algorithmic governmentality
Trust and Distrust in Community Sports Work
Bonding social capital and political trust
Trust, scepticism, and social order
Religious Exclusivism and Mass Beliefs about the Religion v. Science Debate
Gender differences in institutional trust and covid-19 vaccines uptake in Ghana
Determinants of stakeholders’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting the use of Wolbachia-infected Aedes mosquitoes for dengue control
Impact of War Trauma on Interpersonal Mistrust among Syrian Refugees in Germany and Their Interpersonal Trust in Germans
Generalized trust as a foundation for online trust
Trust and environmental activism across regions and countries
The Effect of Cultural Trust on Cooperation in Two Behavioral Experiments
Fragile Trust, Stable Mistrust
Give and take”
An Empirical Comparison of Four Generalized Trust Scales
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Public trust in crop and livestock farmers in Switzerland
The political economy of agricultural data governance
The importance of appearing trustworthy in the workplace
Trust Through Relationships in Journalism
Taking farmers' trust issues Seriously
Do Regulations Enhance Civil Servants' Trust in NGO Contractors for Public Service Innovation? A Comparative Analysis of Conjoint Experiments in China
Political trust in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Insurgent subjectivity
Party Polarization and Trust in Science
Valid and Reliable Measures of Generalized Trust
Fronts and Friends
Measuring Generalized Trust
Social trust, cultural trust, and the will to sacrifice for environmental protections
Expectations of trustworthiness in cross-status interactions
The Inequality-Trust Nexus Revisited
The Influence of Rating Scales and Question Attributes on the Validity and Reliability of Generalized Trust Scales
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field
Status, identity, and ability in the formation of trust
Does trust in financial institutions drive formal saving? Empirical evidence from Ghana
Developing sociological knowledge
Explaining Social Behavior
Social Cognition
Social Cognition
Group-Based Trust in Strangers
Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions
On The Economics and Biology of Trust
Organizational Theories
Affect- And Cognition-Based Trust as Foundations for Interpersonal Cooperation in Organizations.
Bowling alone
Trust and Antitrust
Not So Different After All
Trust and commitment in the United States and Japan
An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust
The Interpretation of Cultures
Sociological theories in progress
Trust
Principles of Group Solidarity
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
The Political Economy of Trust
The Moral Foundations of Trust
Who trusts others
The Problem of Trust
Social Networks and Trust
The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology
The Street-Level Epistemology of Trust
The Logic of Practice
Trust as a Social Reality
Dissecting the Social
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being
Interpersonal trust, trustworthiness, and gullibility
Going back to the source
Varieties of Trust
Developmental Patterns of Social Trust Between Early and Late Adolescence
Is Trust Rigid or Malleable? A Laboratory Experiment
Dependence and Risk
The Effect of Motivational Orientation upon Trust and Suspicion
The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
Understanding Trust
Generalized expectancies for interpersonal trust
Exchange and power in social life
Upbringing, Early Experiences of Discrimination and Social Identity
Where You Stand Depends Upon Where Your Grandparents Sat
Go With the Flow or Fight the Power? The Interactive Effects of Social Dominance Orientation and Perceived Injustice on Support for the Status Quo
Does Generalized (Dis)Trust Travel? Examining the Impact of Cultural Heritage and Destination‐Country Environment on Trust of Immigrants
A Genetic Basis for Social Trust
Three forms of trust and their association
Parental Transmission of Trust or Perceptions of Institutional Fairness
What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything
Political Trust and Trustworthiness
Interpersonal attraction in exchange and communal relationships
The impact of positive mood on trust in interpersonal and intergroup interactions
Signaling when (and when not) to be cautious and self-protective
Trust and suspicion
The Value of Reciprocity
Trust as an Affective Attitude
The Iron Cage Revisited
The Presidential Address
Producing and Consuming Trust
Cooperation Without Trust
The Renaissance of Political Culture
Foundations of Social Theory
Beyond World Images
The Choice-Within-Constraints New Institutionalism and Implications for Sociology
Where You Come From or Where You Live? Examining the Cultural and Institutional Explanation of Generalized Trust Using Migration as a Natural Experiment
Motivation and Justification
Building Solidarity through Generalized Exchange
Risk and Trust in Social Exchange
Uncertainty, Trust, and Commitment Formation in the United States and Japan
From the general to the specific
Relational trustworthiness
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |