Trust and Distrust Definitions: One Bite at a Time

By D. Harrison McKnight, Norman L. Chervany. Trust in Cyber-societies, 2000

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Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Trust and distrust: Polar opposites, or independent but co-existing? (2014, background): “Email: mark.saunders@surrey.ac.uk”
Revisiting the Foundations of Organizational Distrust (2017, unknown): “While trust by itself reduces the complexity of the social system, distrust by itself does not, and thus requires other strategies to reduce complexity (McKnight and Chervany, 2001).”
Do people trust too much or too little (2009, unknown): “In different social sciences, one can find a myriad of varying definitions for trust (see McKnight & Chervany, 2001).”
The impact of initial consumer trust on intentions to transact with a web site: a trust building model (2002, methodology): “Distrust is a distinct construct that is based on different emotions than trust (McKnight and Chervany, 2001), probably because distrust reflects human desires for survival and for protection from harm.”
User Trust in Intelligent Systems: A Journey Over Time (2016, background): “It has been studied from various perspectives across a range of disciplines and there is little consensus as to what trust means [10].”
Value co-creation and purchase intention in social network sites: The role of electronic Word-of-Mouth and trust - A theoretical analysis (2014, background): “Benevolence is a person’s belief that the firm cares about her and is motivated to act in accordance to her interest (McKnight & Chervany, 2001).”
Consensus on conceptualizations and definitions of trust: Are we there yet? (2015, background): “…of trusting in the moment or building trust over time includes “trust-as-attitude” and “trust-as-choice” (cf. Li, 2015 ) along with “trust-aspropensity” or numerous other “trusting” (cf., McKnight & Chervany, 2001a ; Möllering, 2013a ) or “trust-relevant” (cf. Dietz & Den Hartog, 2006 ) constructs.”
Developing a unified definition of digital transformation (2021, background): “Consistent definitions provide clearer means for researchers to communicate with practitioners and to provide them with better prescriptions (McKnight and Chervany, 2001) to understand and develop digital transformation.”
Exploring the mediating effects of trust on principal leadership and teacher professional learning in Hong Kong primary schools (2016, background): “Distrust is often contrasted with trust on opposite ends of a ‘‘trust continuum’’ (see McKnight and Chervany, 2001; Rotter, 1980; Worchel, 1979).”