Trust (social science)

For other types of trust, see Trust (disambiguation).

Trust is the willingness of one party (the trustor) to become vulnerable to another party (the trustee) on the presumption that the trustee will act in ways that benefit the trustor.^[1][2][3] In addition, the trustor does not have control over the actions of the trustee.^[1] Scholars distinguish between generalized trust (also known as social trust), which is the extension of trust to a relatively large circle of unfamiliar others, and particularized trust, which is contingent on a specific situation or a specific relationship.^[1]

Trust in others in Europe

Country-level estimates of trust

Share of people agreeing with the statement "most people can be trusted"

As the trustor is uncertain about the outcome of the trustee's actions, the trustor can only develop and evaluate expectations. Such expectations are formed with a view to the motivations of the trustee, dependent on their characteristics, the situation, and their interaction.^{[4][page needed]} The uncertainty stems from the risk of failure or harm to the trustor if the trustee does not behave as desired.

In the social sciences, the subtleties of trust are a subject of ongoing research. In sociology and psychology, the degree to which one party trusts another is a measure of belief in the honesty, fairness, or benevolence of another party. The term "confidence" is more appropriate for a belief in the competence of the other party. A failure in trust may be forgiven more easily if it is interpreted as a failure of competence rather than a lack of benevolence or honesty.^{[5][page needed]} In economics, trust is often conceptualized as reliability in transactions. In all cases, trust is a heuristic decision rule, allowing a person to deal with complexities that would require unrealistic effort in rational reasoning.^[6]

Sociology

Sociology claims trust is one of several social constructs; an element of the social reality.^{[8][page needed]} Other constructs frequently discussed together with trust include control, confidence, risk, meaning and power. Trust is attributable to relationships between social actors, both individuals and groups (social systems). Sociology is concerned with the position and role of trust in social systems. Interest in trust has grown significantly since the early 1980s, from the early works of Luhmann,^[9] Barber^[10] and Giddens^[11] (see Sztompka^[12] for a more detailed overview). This growth of interest in trust has been stimulated by ongoing changes in society, known as late modernity and post-modernity.

Sviatoslav contended that society needs trust because it increasingly finds itself operating at the edge between confidence in what is known from everyday experience and contingency of new possibilities. Without trust, one should always consider all contingent possibilities, leading to paralysis by analysis.^[13] Trust acts as a decisional heuristic, allowing the decision-maker to overcome bounded rationality^[14] and process what would otherwise be an excessively complex situation. Trust can be seen as a bet on one of many contingent futures, specifically, the one that appears to deliver the greatest benefits. Once the bet is decided (i.e. trust is granted), the trustor suspends his or her disbelief, and the possibility of a negative course of action is not considered at all. Hence trust acts as a reducing agent of social complexity, allowing for cooperation.^[15]

Sociology tends to focus on two distinct views: the macro view of social systems, and a micro view of individual social actors (where it borders with social psychology). Views on trust follow this dichotomy. On one side, the systemic role of trust can be discussed with a certain disregard to the psychological complexity underpinning individual trust. The behavioral approach to trust is usually assumed^{[16][page needed]} while actions of social actors are measurable, allowing for statistical modelling of trust. This systemic approach can be contrasted^[17] with studies on social actors and their decision-making process, in anticipation that understanding of such a process will explain (and allow to model) the emergence of trust.

Sociology acknowledges that the contingency of the future creates dependency between social actors, and specifically that the trustor becomes dependent on the trustee. Trust is seen as one of the possible methods to resolve such a dependency, being an attractive alternative to control.^[18] Trust is valuable if the trustee is much more powerful than the trustor, yet the trustor is under social obligation to support the trustee.^[19]

Modern information technologies have not only facilitated the transition to a post-modern society, but have also challenged traditional views on trust. Information systems research has identified that people have come to trust in technology, via two primary constructs: The first consists of human-like constructs including benevolence, honesty, and competence, whilst the second employs system-like constructs such as usefulness, reliability, and functionality.^[20] The discussion surrounding the relationship between information technologies and trust is still in progress as research remains in its infant stages.^{[may be outdated as of August 2023]}

High- and low-trust societies

This section is an excerpt from High-trust and low-trust societies.[edit]

A low-trust society is defined as one in which interpersonal trust is relatively low, and which do not have shared ethical values.^[21] Conversely, a high-trust society is one where interpersonal trust is relatively high, and where ethical values are strongly shared.

Types

Four types of social trust are recognized:^[22]

• Generalized trust, or trust in strangers, is an important form of trust in modern society, which involves much social interaction among strangers.^[23]
• Out-group trust is the trust a person has in members of a different group. This could be members of a different ethnic group, or citizens of a different country, for example.
• In-group trust is that which is placed in members of one's own group.
• Trust in neighbors considers the relationships between people who share a common residential environment.

Influence of ethnic diversity

Several dozen studies have examined the impact of ethnic diversity on social trust. Research published in the Annual Review of Political Science^[22] concluded that there were three key debates on the subject:

1. Why does ethnic diversity modestly reduce social trust?
2. Can contact reduce the negative association between ethnic diversity and social trust?
3. Is ethnic diversity a stand-in for social disadvantage?

The review's meta-analysis of 87 studies showed a consistent, though modest, negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust. Ethnic diversity has the strongest negative impact on neighbor trust, in-group trust, and generalized trust. It did not appear to have a significant impact on out-group trust. The limited size of the impact means apocalyptic claims about it are exaggerated.^[22]

Psychology

In psychology, trust is believing that the person who is trusted will do what is expected. According to the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, development of basic trust is the first state of psychosocial development occurring, or failing, during the first two years of life. Success results in feelings of security and optimism, while failure leads towards an orientation of insecurity and mistrust^[24] possibly resulting in attachment disorders.^[25] A person's dispositional tendency to trust others can be considered a personality trait and as such is one of the strongest predictors of subjective well-being.^[26] Trust increases subjective well-being because it enhances the quality of one's interpersonal relationships; happy people are skilled at fostering good relationships.^[27]

Trust is integral to the idea of social influence: it is easier to influence or persuade someone who is trusting. The notion of trust is increasingly adopted to predict acceptance of behaviors by others, institutions (e.g. government agencies), and objects such as machines. Yet once again, perceptions of honesty, competence and value similarity^[28] (slightly similar to benevolence) are essential.^{[clarification needed]}

There are three forms of trust commonly studied in psychology:

• Trust is being vulnerable to someone even when they are trustworthy.
• Trustworthiness are the characteristics or behaviors of one person that inspire positive expectations in another person.
• Trust propensity is the tendency to make oneself vulnerable to others in general.^[29] Research suggests that this general tendency can change over time in response to key life events.^[30]

Once trust is lost by violation of one of these three determinants, it is very hard to regain. There is asymmetry in the building versus destruction of trust.

Research has been conducted into the social implications of trust, for instance:

• Barbara Misztal attempted to combine all notions of trust.^[31] She described three functions of trust: it makes social life predictable, it creates a sense of community, and it makes it easier for people to work together.
• In the context of sexual trust, Riki Robbins describes four stages.^[32] These consist of perfect trust, damaged trust, devastated trust, and restored trust.^{[further explanation needed][33]}
• In the context of information theory, Ed Gerck defines and contrasts trust with^{[clarification needed]} social functions such as power, surveillance, and accountability.^[34]
• From a social identity perspective, the propensity to trust strangers (see in-group favoritism) arises from the mutual knowledge of a shared group membership,^[35][36] stereotypes,^[36] or the need to maintain the group's positive distinctiveness.^[37]

Despite the centrality of trust to the positive functioning of people and relationships, very little is known about how and why trust evolves, is maintained, and is destroyed.^[38]

One factor that enhances trust among people is facial resemblance. Experimenters who digitally manipulated facial resemblance in a two-person sequential trust game found evidence that people have more trust in a partner who has similar facial features.^[39] Facial resemblance also decreased sexual desire for a partner. In a series of tests, digitally manipulated faces were presented to subjects who evaluated them for attractiveness within the context of a long-term or short-term relationship. The results showed that within the context of a short-term relationship, which is dependent on sexual desire, similar facial features caused a decrease in desire. Within the context of a long-term relationship, which is dependent on trust, similar facial features increased the attractiveness of a person. This suggests that facial resemblance and trust have great effects on relationships.^[40]

Interpersonal trust literature^[38] investigates "trust-diagnostic situations": situations that test partners' abilities to act in the best interests of the other person or the relationship, while rejecting a conflicting option which is merely in their self-interest.^[41] Trust-diagnostic situations occur throughout the course of everyday life, though they can also be deliberately engineered by people who want to test the current level of trust in a relationship.^[38]

A low-trust relationship is one in which a person has little confidence their partner is truly concerned about them or the relationship.^[42] People in low trust relationships tend to make distress-maintaining attributions^[jargon][43] whereby they place their greatest focus on the consequences of their partner's negative behavior, and any impacts of positive actions are minimized. This feeds into the overarching notion that the person's partner is uninterested in the relationship, and any positive acts on their part are met with skepticism, leading to further negative outcomes.^[42]

Distrusting people may miss opportunities for trusting relationships. Someone who was subject to an abusive childhood may have been deprived of any evidence that trust is warranted in future relationships.^{[4][page needed]} An important key to treating sexual victimization of a child is the rebuilding of trust between parent and child. Failure by adults to validate that sexual abuse occurred contributes to the child's difficulty towards trusting self and others.^[44] A child's trust can also be affected by the erosion of the marriage of their parents.^[45] Children of divorce do not exhibit less trust in mothers, partners, spouses, friends, and associates than their peers of intact families. The impact of parental divorce is limited to trust in the father.^[46]

People may trust non-human agents. For instance, people may trust animals,^[47] the scientific process,^[48] and social machines^{[clarification needed]}. Trust helps create a social contract that allows humans and domestic animals to live together.^[49] Trust in the scientific process is associated with increased trust in innovations such as biotechnology.^[48] When it comes to trust in social machines, people are more willing to trust intelligent machines with humanoid morphologies^[50] and female cues,^[51] when they are focused on tasks (versus socialization),^[52] and when they behave in morally good ways.^[53][52] More generally, they may be trusted as a function of the "machine heuristic"—a mental shortcut with which people assume that machines are less biased, more accurate, and more reliable than people^[54]—such that people may sometimes trust a robot more than a person.^[55]

People are disposed to trust and to judge the trustworthiness of other people or groups—for instance, in developing relationships with potential mentors. One example would be as part of interprofessional work in the referral pathway from an emergency department to a hospital ward.^[56] Another would be building knowledge on whether new practices, people, and things introduced into our lives are indeed accountable or worthy of investing confidence and trust in. This process is captured by the empirically grounded construct of "Relational Integration" within Normalization Process Theory.^[57] This can be traced in neuroscience terms to the neurobiological structure and activity of a human brain.^{[citation needed]} Some studies indicate that trust can be altered by the application of oxytocin.^[58]

Social identity approach

The social identity approach explains a person's trust in strangers as a function of their group-based stereotypes or in-group favoring behaviors which they base on salient group memberships. With regard to ingroup favoritism, people generally think well of strangers but expect better treatment from in-group members in comparison to out-group members. This greater expectation translates into a propensity to trust a member of the in-group more than a member of the out-group.^[35][37][59] It is only advantageous for one to form such expectations of an in-group stranger if the stranger also knows one's own group membership.^[59]

The social identity approach has been empirically investigated. Researchers have employed allocator studies^[jargon] in their attempts to understand group-based trust in strangers.^{[35][36][59][60]} They^[ambiguous] may be operationalized^[specify] as unilateral or bilateral relationships of exchange. General social categories such as university affiliation, course majors, and even ad-hoc groups have been used to distinguish between in-group and out-group members. In unilateral studies of trust, the participant is asked to choose between envelopes containing money that was previously allocated by an in-group or out-group member.^[59] Participants have no prior or future opportunities for interaction, thereby testing Brewer's notion that group membership is sufficient to bring about group-based trust and hence cooperation.^[61] Participants could expect an amount ranging from nothing to the maximum value an allocator could give out. Bilateral studies of trust have employed an investment game devised by Berg and colleagues in which people choose to give a portion or none of their money to another.^[62] Any amount given would be tripled and the receiver would then decide whether they would return the favor by giving money back to the sender. This was meant to test trusting behavior on the part of the sender and the eventual trustworthiness of the receiver.^[37][59]

Empirical research demonstrates that when group membership is salient to both parties, trust is granted more readily to in-group members than out-group members.^[36][59][60] This occurrs even when the in-group's stereotype was comparatively less positive than the out-group's (e.g. psychology versus nursing majors)^{[clarification needed]},^[36] in the absence of personal identity cues^{[clarification needed]},^[37] and when participants had the option of a sure sum of money (i.e. in essence opting out of the need to trust a stranger to gain some monetary reward).^[35] When only the recipient^{[clarification needed]} was made aware of group membership, trust^[specify] becomes reliant upon group stereotypes.^[36][37] The group with the more positive stereotype was trusted (e.g. one's university affiliation over another's)^[37] even over that of the in-group (e.g. nursing over psychology majors).^[36]

Another explanation for in-group-favoring behaviors in trust could be the need to maintain in-group positive distinctiveness, particularly in the presence of social identity threat.^[60] Trust in out-group strangers increased when personal cues to identity^[specify] were revealed^[specify].^[37]

Philosophy

Many philosophers have written about different forms of trust. Most agree that interpersonal trust is the foundation on which these forms can be modeled.^[63] For an act to be an expression of trust, it must not betray the expectations of the trustee. Some philosophers, such as Lagerspetz, argue that trust is a kind of reliance, though not merely reliance.^[64] Gambetta argued that trust is the inherent belief that others generally have good intentions, which is the foundation for our reliance on them.^[65] Philosophers such as Annette Baier challenged this view, asserting a difference between trust and reliance by saying that trust can be betrayed, whereas reliance can only be disappointed.^[66] Carolyn McLeod explains Baier's argument with the following examples: we can rely on our clock to give the time, but we do not feel betrayed when it breaks, thus, we cannot say that we trusted it; we are not trusting when we are suspicious of another person, because this is in fact an expression of distrust.^{[clarification needed][63]} The violation of trust warrants this sense of betrayal.^{[clarification needed][67]} Thus, trust is different from reliance in the sense that a trustor accepts the risk of being betrayed.

Karen Jones proposed an emotional aspect to trust—optimism^[68] that the trustee will do the right thing by the trustor, which is also described as "affective trust".^[69] People sometimes trust others even without this optimistic expectation, instead hoping that by extending trust this will prompt trustworthy behavior in the trustee. This is known as "therapeutic trust"^[70] and gives both the trustee a reason to be trustworthy, and the trustor a reason to believe they are trustworthy.

The definition of trust as a belief in something or a confident expectation about something^[71] eliminates the notion of risk, because it does not include whether the expectation or belief is favorable or unfavorable. For example, to have an expectation of a friend arriving to dinner late because she has habitually arrived late for the last fifteen years, is a confident expectation (whether or not we find her late arrivals to be annoying). The trust is not about what we wish for, but rather it is in the consistency of the data. As a result, there is no risk or sense of betrayal because the data exists as collective knowledge. Faulkner contrasts such "predictive trust" with the aforementioned affective trust, proposing that predictive trust may only warrant disappointment as a consequence of an inaccurate prediction, not a sense of betrayal.^[69]

Economics

See also: Consumer confidence

Trust in economics is an explanation for the difference between actual human behavior and the behavior that could be explained by people's desire to maximize their utility. In economic terms, trust can provide an explanation of a difference between Nash equilibrium and the observed equilibrium. Such an approach can be applied to individual people as well as to societies.

 

 

Levels of trust are higher in countries, and in states of the U.S.A., that are more economically equal.^[72]

Trust is important to economists for many reasons. Taking the "Market for Lemons" transaction popularized by George Akerlof as an example,^[73] if a potential buyer of a car doesn't trust the seller to not sell a lemon, the transaction won't take place. The buyer won't buy in the absence of trust, even if the product would be of great value to the buyer. Trust can act as an economic lubricant, reducing the cost of transactions between parties, enabling new forms of cooperation, and generally furthering business activities,^[74] employment, and prosperity. This observation prompted interest in trust as a form of social capital and research into the process of creation and distribution of such capital.^[75] A higher level of social trust may be positively correlated with economic development: Even though the original concept of "high trust" and "low trust" societies may not necessarily hold, social trust benefits the economy^[76] and a low level of trust inhibits economic growth. The absence of trust restricts growth in employment, wages, and profits, thus reducing the overall welfare of society.^[77]

Theoretical economical modelling demonstrates that the optimum level of trust that a rational economic agent should exhibit in transactions is equal to the trustworthiness of the other party.^[78] Such a level of trust leads to an efficient market. Trusting less leads to the loss of economic opportunities, while trusting more leads to unnecessary vulnerabilities and potential exploitation. Economics is also interested in quantifying trust, usually in monetary terms. The level of correlation between an increase in profit margin and a decrease in transactional costs can be used as an indicator of the economic value of trust.^[79]

Economic "trust games" empirically quantify trust in relationships under laboratory conditions. Several games and game-like scenarios related to trust have been tried, with certain preferences to^{[clarification needed]} those that allow the estimation^[specify] of confidence in monetary terms.^[80] In games of trust the Nash equilibrium differs from Pareto optimum so that no player alone can maximize their own utility by altering their selfish strategy without cooperation. Cooperating partners can also benefit. The classical version of the game of trust has been described as an abstracted investment game, using the scenario of an investor and a broker.^[81] The investor can invest some fraction of his money, and the broker can return to the investor some fraction of the investor's gains. If both players follow their naive economic best interest, the investor should never invest and the broker will never be able to repay anything. Thus the flow of money, its volume, and its character^{[clarification needed]} is attributable entirely to the existence of trust. Such a game can be played as a once-off, or repeatedly, with the same or different sets of players, to distinguish between a general propensity to trust and trust within particular relationships. Several variants of this game exist. Reversing rules leads to the game of distrust, pre-declarations can be used to establish intentions of players,^[82] while alterations to the distribution of gains can be used to manipulate the perceptions of both players. The game can be also played by several players on the closed market^[jargon], with or without information about reputation.^[83]

Other interesting games include binary-choice trust games^[84] and the gift-exchange game.^[85] Games based on the Prisoner's Dilemma link trust with economic utility and demonstrate the rationality behind reciprocity.^[86]

The popularization of e-commerce opened the discussion of trust in economy to new challenges while at the same time elevating the importance of trust, and desire to understand customer decision to trust.^{[needs copy edit][87]} For example, interpersonal relationships between buyers and sellers have been disintermediated by the technology,^[88] and consequentially they required improvement.^[89] Websites can influence the buyer to trust the seller, regardless of the seller's actual trustworthiness.^[90] Reputation-based systems improve on trust assessment by capturing a collective perception of trustworthiness; this has generated interest in various models of reputation.^[91]

Management and organization science

In management and organization science, trust is studied as a factor that can be managed and influenced by organizational actors. Scholars have researched how trust develops across individual and organizational levels of analysis.^[92] They suggest a reciprocal process in which organizational structures influence people’s trust and, at the same time, people’s trust manifests in organizational structures. Trust is also one of the conditions of an organizational culture that supports knowledge sharing.^[93] An organizational culture that supports knowledge sharing allows employees to feel secure and comfortable to share their knowledge, their work, and their expertise.^[93][94] Structure often creates trust in a person, and this encourages them to feel comfortable and excel in the workplace; it makes an otherwise stressful environment manageable.

Management and organization science scholars have also studied how trust is influenced by contracts and how trust interacts with formal mechanisms.^[95] Scholars in management and related disciplines have also made the case for the importance of distrust as a related but distinct construct.^[96]

Since the mid-1990s, organizational research has followed two distinct but nonexclusive paradigms of trust research:^[97]

1. The first distinguishes between two major dimensions of trust: Trust in another can be characterized as cognition-based trust (based on rational calculation) and affect-based trust (based on emotional attachment).^[98] For example, trust in an auto repair shop could come in the form of an assessment of the capabilities of the shop to do a good job repairing one's car (cognition-based trust) or of having a longstanding relationship with the shop's owner (affect-based trust).
2. The second distinguishes between the trustworthiness factors that give rise to trust (i.e., one's perceived ability, benevolence, and integrity) and trust itself.^[2]

Together, these paradigms predict how different dimensions of trust form in organizations via the demonstration of various trustworthiness attributes.^[97]

Systems

In systems, a trusted component has a set of properties which another component can rely on. If A trusts B, a violation in those properties of B might compromise the correct operation of A. Observe that those properties of B trusted by A might not correspond quantitatively or qualitatively to B's actual properties. This occurs when the designer of the overall system does not take the relation into account. In consequence, trust should be placed to the extent of the component's trustworthiness. The trustworthiness of a component is thus, not surprisingly, defined by how well it secures a set of functional and non-functional properties, deriving from its architecture, construction, and environment, and evaluated as appropriate.^[99]

Other

Trust in politics is political efficacy.^[100]

See also

• Anticipation
• Attachment theory
• Credulity
• Gullibility
• Intimacy
• Leap of faith
• Misplaced trust
• Personal boundaries
• Position of trust
• Source criticism
• Swift trust theory
• Trust metric
• Trusted system
• Trust in computing

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Further reading

• Bachmann, Reinhard and Zaheer, Akbar (eds) (2006). Handbook of Trust Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.^{[ISBN missing]}
• Bicchieri, Cristina, Duffy, John and Tolle, Gil (2004). "Trust among strangers", Philosophy of Science 71: 1–34.
• Herreros, Francisco (2023). "The State and Trust". Annual Review of Political Science 26 (1)
• Kelton, Kari; Fleischmann, Kenneth R. & Wallace, William A. (2008). "Trust in Digital Information". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(3):363–374.
• Maister, David H., Green, Charles H. & Galford, Robert M. (2000). The Trusted Advisor. Free Press, New York^{[ISBN missing]}
• Natale, S.M.; Hoffman, R.P.; Hayward, G. (1998). Business Education and Training: Corporate Structures, Business, and the Management of Values. Business education and training : a value-laden process. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1003-2.
• Schilke, Oliver; Reimann, Martin; Cook, Karen S. (2021). "Trust in Social Relations". Annual Review of Sociology. 47(1).

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