The experience of trust in everyday life.

In this contribution, we review current research on daily-life experiences of trust in diverse and naturally occurring social interactions ranging from close relationships to complete strangers. Experience-sampling methodology allows the joint examination of situational, relational, dispositional, motivational, and behavioral variables in their relation to trust. Thereby, these recent studies advance our understanding of how trust is shaped by important features of the social situation such as perceived conflict of interest. They elucidate how trust fluctuates in accordance with stable traits, and how these traits interact with situational variables (e.g., social closeness to the target). Furthermore, trust connects social perceptions of trustees with trustors' prosocial tendencies.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Psychology

• Publication date

  2021-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.016PMID 34749242
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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