The Foundations of Individuals’ Generalized Social Trust: A Review

Peter Thisted Dinesen, Rene Bekkers

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    Abstract

    This chapter reviews the literature on the causes of individuals' generalized social trust (trust in unknown others) from a wide range of social science disciplines. The chapter structures the review around two broad classes of explanations: dispositional explanations (trust as a disposition) and experiential explanations (trust as a response to individual experiences). Both have been examined in a number of related lines of research, which are reviewed and critically discussed in the chapter. Specific attention is paid to the potential for drawing causal inference-based on the nature of the data employed, and the methods used-in the studies reviewed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTrust in Social Dilemmas
    EditorsPaul A. M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, Toshio Yamagishi
    Place of PublicationN.Y.
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Publication date1 Jan 2017
    Pages77-99
    Chapter5
    ISBN (Print) 9780190630782
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
    SeriesOxford Series in Human Cooperation

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