Trust is concept that exists across numerous disciplines. One thing they all seem to\u00a0agree on is that there is a lack of agreement either within or across disciplines on what the definition of trust is. One sociologist, Beatty, who declines to settle on a definition, describes it as a mercurial, context-dependent concept defined as a noun, verb, psychological state, personality state, belief, social structure and behavioural intention.<\/p>\n
Whilst I don\u2019t think we need go as far as paraphrasing Justice Potter Stewart: \u201cI can\u2019t define it, but I know it when I see it\u201d, clearly the word is one loaded with meanings. Beatty\u2019s description of it as being mercurial and context specific hits the nail on the head I think. There follows a selection of definitions from the literature. I get the feeling this post will keep growing…<\/p>\n
\u201cWe define trust as expectations that an exchange partner will behave benignly, based on the attribution of positive dispositions and intentions to the partner in a situation of uncertainty and risk\u201d<\/strong><\/em> “a subjective expectation an agent has about another\u2019s future behavior based on the history of their encounters.” “\u2026we may say that trust exists in a social system insofar as the members of that system act according to and are secure in the expected futures constituted by the presence of each other or their symbolic representations”<\/em><\/strong> “\u2026trust is a psychological state or orientation of an actor (the truster) toward a specific partner (the trustee) with whom the actor is in some way interdependent (that is, the truster needs the trustee\u2019s cooperation to attain valued outcomes or resources).”<\/strong><\/em> “confident expectations and a willingness to be vulnerable are critical components of all definitions of trust reflected in the articles.”<\/strong><\/em> \u201c[Trust is] the firm belief in the competence of an entity to act dependably, securely, and reliably within a specified context.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> “Trust is a mental state comprising:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Huang, Jingwei, and David M. Nicol. \u2018Evidence-Based Trust Reasoning\u2019, 1\u20132. ACM Press, 2014. doi:10.1145\/2600176.2600193.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trust is concept that exists across numerous disciplines. One thing they all seem to\u00a0agree on is that there is a lack of agreement either within or across disciplines on what the definition of trust is. One sociologist, Beatty, who declines to settle on a definition, describes it as a mercurial, context-dependent concept defined as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/philosoraptors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMolm, Linda D., Nobuyuki Takahashi, and Gretchen Peterson. \u2018Risk and Trust in Social Exchange: An Experimental Test of a Classical Proposition\u2019. American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 5 (2000): 1396\u20131427.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/em>Mui, Lik, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, and Ari Halberstadt. \u2018A Computational Model of Trust and Reputation\u2019. In System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on, 2431\u20132439. IEEE, 2002. http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/994181\/<\/p>\n
\nLewis, J. David, and Andrew Weigert. \u2018Trust as a Social Reality\u2019. Social Forces 63, no. 4 (June 1985): 967. doi:10.2307\/2578601.<\/p>\n
\nSimpson, Jeffry A. \u2018Psychological Foundations of Trust\u2019. Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 5 (2007): 264\u2013268.<\/p>\n
\nRousseau, Denise M., Sim B. Sitkin, Ronald S. Burt, and Colin Camerer. \u2018Not so Different after All: A Cross-Discipline View of Trust\u2019. Academy of Management Review 23, no. 3 (1998): 393\u2013404.<\/p>\n
\nT. Grandison, M. Sloman, A survey of trust in internet applications, IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials 4 (4) (2000) 2\u201316<\/p>\n\n
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